Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py b/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
index e22ceb0..7fa481d 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
cfgFile - string, fully specified configuration file name
"""
self.file=cfgFile
- ConfigParser.__init__(self,defaults=cfgDefaults)
+ ConfigParser.__init__(self, defaults=cfgDefaults, strict=False)
def Get(self, section, option, type=None, default=None, raw=False):
"""
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 78e1c85..83f52af 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -212,6 +212,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
+
- Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection
is automatically closed.