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Author BTaskaya
Recipients Adrian Wielgosik, BTaskaya, dheiberg, hongweipeng, lukasz.langa, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date 2019-10-25.19:05:41
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> I do not think that adding an extra parameter to .read() will solve any problem.

There is a use case of this (which some of tools depends) about checking if configuration exists and if not, raising an error. Now, they can solve this by just adding check_exist argument. 

> Changing the default behavior will break existing code.

Can you give an example of how this feature can/could break existing code?
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