The ability was lost in the switch to Python 3, because the config parser module in the standard library changed its defaults. [Python 2][2]: > Comments may appear on their own in an otherwise empty line, or > may be entered in lines holding values or section names. [Python 3][3]: > Inline comments can be harmful because they prevent users > from using the delimiting characters as parts of values. > That being said, this can be customized. [2]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html#module-ConfigParser [3]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html#supported-ini-file-structure Signed-off-by: Neil Mayhew <neil@neil.mayhew.name>