diff -r 000000000000 -r 6474c204b198 testing/mozbase/manifestdestiny/tests/test_read_ini.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/testing/mozbase/manifestdestiny/tests/test_read_ini.py	Wed Dec 31 06:09:35 2014 +0100
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""
+test .ini parsing
+
+ensure our .ini parser is doing what we want; to be deprecated for
+python's standard ConfigParser when 2.7 is reality so OrderedDict
+is the default:
+
+http://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html
+"""
+
+import unittest
+from manifestparser import read_ini
+from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
+from StringIO import StringIO
+
+class IniParserTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_inline_comments(self):
+        """
+        We have no inline comments; so we're testing to ensure we don't:
+        https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=855288
+        """
+
+        # test '#' inline comments (really, the lack thereof)
+        string = """[test_felinicity.py]
+kittens = true # This test requires kittens
+"""
+        buffer = StringIO()
+        buffer.write(string)
+        buffer.seek(0)
+        result = read_ini(buffer)[0][1]['kittens']
+        self.assertEqual(result, "true # This test requires kittens")
+
+        # compare this to ConfigParser
+        # python 2.7 ConfigParser does not support '#' as an
+        # inline comment delimeter (for "backwards compatability"):
+        # http://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html
+        buffer.seek(0)
+        parser = ConfigParser()
+        parser.readfp(buffer)
+        control = parser.get('test_felinicity.py', 'kittens')
+        self.assertEqual(result, control)
+
+        # test ';' inline comments (really, the lack thereof)
+        string = string.replace('#', ';')
+        buffer = StringIO()
+        buffer.write(string)
+        buffer.seek(0)
+        result = read_ini(buffer)[0][1]['kittens']
+        self.assertEqual(result, "true ; This test requires kittens")
+
+        # compare this to ConfigParser
+        # python 2.7 ConfigParser *does* support ';' as an
+        # inline comment delimeter (ibid).
+        # Python 3.x configparser, OTOH, does not support
+        # inline-comments by default.  It does support their specification,
+        # though they are weakly discouraged:
+        # http://docs.python.org/dev/library/configparser.html
+        buffer.seek(0)
+        parser = ConfigParser()
+        parser.readfp(buffer)
+        control = parser.get('test_felinicity.py', 'kittens')
+        self.assertNotEqual(result, control)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()