bpo-21018: added missing documentation about escaping characters for configparser (GH-6137) (GH-15845)

Document how $ and % can be escaped in configparser.
(cherry picked from commit 9a94093189)

Co-authored-by: Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>
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Miss Islington (bot) 2019-09-10 06:32:42 -07:00 committed by Julien Palard
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@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ from ``get()`` calls.
my_dir: %(home_dir)s/lumberjack
my_pictures: %(my_dir)s/Pictures
[Escape]
gain: 80%% # use a %% to escape the % sign (% is the only character that needs to be escaped)
In the example above, :class:`ConfigParser` with *interpolation* set to
``BasicInterpolation()`` would resolve ``%(home_dir)s`` to the value of
@ -346,6 +348,9 @@ from ``get()`` calls.
my_dir: ${home_dir}/lumberjack
my_pictures: ${my_dir}/Pictures
[Escape]
cost: $$80 # use a $$ to escape the $ sign ($ is the only character that needs to be escaped)
Values from other sections can be fetched as well:
.. code-block:: ini