# HG changeset patch
# User Franz Glasner <hg@dom66.de>
# Date 1523648682 -7200
# Node ID d44ee758e31b25a6c22285724cd73643e62e7e9b
# Parent  7e6ec99d5ff542d337123c645ec5a06bbc5c75c2
Some docu on comments in files

diff -r 7e6ec99d5ff5 -r d44ee758e31b doc/introduction.rst
--- a/doc/introduction.rst	Fri Apr 13 09:51:02 2018 +0200
+++ b/doc/introduction.rst	Fri Apr 13 21:44:42 2018 +0200
@@ -45,15 +45,13 @@
           into a Python :class:`dict` alike. This is checked by the
           implementation.
 
-.. todo:: Handle JSON comments by special attributes which will
-          filtered out on further processing. Javascript comments are
-          not allowed by the JSON specification.
-
 An example is:
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../tests/data/conf10.json
    :language: js
 
+For comments in JSON files see section :ref:`comments`.
+
 
 .. _ini-files:
 
@@ -203,6 +201,19 @@
 ``[namespace:]variable``.
 
 
+.. _comments:
+
+Comments
+--------
+
+By default all keys beginning with ``__comment`` or ``__doc`` are
+filtered out and not given to the application. This allows comments in
+JSON files -- but is not restricted to JSON files only.
+
+For all types of configuration files their respective standard comments
+are allowed too.
+
+
 .. _variable-namespaces:
 
 Variable Namespaces