simfactory's option parser terminates option values on ";"

I have (on my local machine horizon.tapir.caltech.edu):

rhaas@horizon:/mnt/data/rhaas/postdoc/gr/ET_trunk$ tail -n2  simfactory/etc/defs.local.ini
[horizon.tapir.caltech.edu]
user            = rhaas3 ; missing

and get

rhaas@horizon:/mnt/data/rhaas/postdoc/gr/ET_trunk$ sim print-mdb-entry horizon.tapir.caltech.edu | grep rhaas
sourcebasedir   = /mnt/data/rhaas/postdoc/gr
basedir         = /home/rhaas/data/postdoc/runs
user            = rhaas3
email           = rhaas

ie. the option parser truncates the option value for "user" at the ";" character (seem to treat it as a comment marger like "#").

This makes it impossible to have a ";" eg. in the envsetup command. I tried escaping the ";" with backslashes and double quotes. No luck. In my specific case I wanted to do:

hash module && module purge ; bash ...

ie clear all module information if the module command exists (I have a workaround for this particular application).

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