why is there {Raw,Safe,}Configparser in Python 3

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Published on 2010-05-17T11:47:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 11:50 UTC
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Am surprised there's 3 different forms: RawConfigParser, SafeConfigParser and ConfigParser. I read the differences but why isn't everyone using SafeConfigParser, since it seems, well, safe? I can understand that in the case for Python 2 that the other two were kept for backward compatibility.

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