#1682942: add some ConfigParser features: alternate delimiters, alternate comments, empty lines in values.  Also enhance the docs with more examples and mention SafeConfigParser before ConfigParser.  Patch by Lukas Langa, review by myself, Eric and Ezio.
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+- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate
+  delimiters, alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
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 - Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
 
 - Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.