Re: [Configobj-develop] Continuation for multi-line data

[Justus P. <ju...@ry...>]

[I found this thread in the archives...]

Abhi initially said:
>> I see in the documentation that the use of '\' as a continuation
>> character for multi-line data is no longer supported in ConfigObj 4.

To which Fuzzyman responded:
>  I'm afraid I don't like '\' as continuation syntax, and won't add it
>  back to ConfigObj.
>  
>  The correct way to create multiline values is with triple quote
>  strings

Except ConfigObj3 let you create a multi-line list like:

foo = a, \
	b, \
 	c

But ConfigObj4 just turns the following into a big (and useless to me)
string:
foo = """a,
	b,
	c"""