From d3ffe6f0d9c9216b88cead3f5abaee28a5d6e4eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: A_D <aunderscored@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 14:27:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Removed useless check, added doc comments

---
 config.py | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index 1a388fce..67ea52d8 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -836,14 +836,10 @@ class LinuxConfig(AbstractConfig):
         self.filename.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
 
         self.config: Optional[ConfigParser] = ConfigParser(comment_prefixes=('#',), interpolation=None)
+        self.config.read(self.filename)  # read() ignores files that dont exist
 
-        try:
-            self.config.read(self.filename)
-        except Exception as e:
-            logger.debug(f'Error occurred while reading in file. Assuming that we are creating a new one: {e}')
-            self.config.add_section(self.SECTION)
-
-        # Ensure that our section exists
+        # Ensure that our section exists. This is here because configparser will happily create files for us, but it
+        # does not magically create sections
         try:
             self.config[self.SECTION].get("this_does_not_exist", fallback=None)
         except KeyError: