Commit 1a1883d5 authored by R David Murray's avatar R David Murray

#16085: Don't promote shadowing builtins in the configparser example.

parent 53202504
......@@ -770,9 +770,9 @@ An example of writing to a configuration file::
# values using the mapping protocol or ConfigParser's set() does not allow
# such assignments to take place.
config.add_section('Section1')
config.set('Section1', 'int', '15')
config.set('Section1', 'bool', 'true')
config.set('Section1', 'float', '3.1415')
config.set('Section1', 'an_int', '15')
config.set('Section1', 'a_bool', 'true')
config.set('Section1', 'a_float', '3.1415')
config.set('Section1', 'baz', 'fun')
config.set('Section1', 'bar', 'Python')
config.set('Section1', 'foo', '%(bar)s is %(baz)s!')
......@@ -790,13 +790,13 @@ An example of reading the configuration file again::
# getfloat() raises an exception if the value is not a float
# getint() and getboolean() also do this for their respective types
float = config.getfloat('Section1', 'float')
int = config.getint('Section1', 'int')
print(float + int)
a_float = config.getfloat('Section1', 'a_float')
an_int = config.getint('Section1', 'an_int')
print(a_float + an_int)
# Notice that the next output does not interpolate '%(bar)s' or '%(baz)s'.
# This is because we are using a RawConfigParser().
if config.getboolean('Section1', 'bool'):
if config.getboolean('Section1', 'a_bool'):
print(config.get('Section1', 'foo'))
To get interpolation, use :class:`ConfigParser`::
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