diff Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex @ 25918:9901fda7c366 legacy-trunk

Implement a safer and more predictable interpolation approach. Closes SF bug #511737.
author Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
date Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:52:00 +0000
parents fba16b9bc951
children 178844988812
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--- a/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex	Fri Oct 25 20:42:44 2002 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex	Fri Oct 25 21:52:00 2002 +0000
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@
 and will override any value provided in \var{defaults}.
 \end{classdesc}
 
+\begin{classdesc}{SafeConfigParser}{\optional{defaults}}
+Derived class of \class{ConfigParser} that implements a more-sane
+variant of the magical interpolation feature.  This implementation is
+more predictable as well.
+% XXX Need to explain what's safer/more predictable about it.
+New applications should prefer this version if they don't need to be
+compatible with older versions of Python.
+\versionadded{2.3}
+\end{classdesc}
+
 \begin{excdesc}{NoSectionError}
 Exception raised when a specified section is not found.
 \end{excdesc}