Allow internal whitespace in keys.
Closes SF bug #583248; backporting to r22-maint branch.
diff --git a/Lib/ConfigParser.py b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
index 47243fb..842a576 100644
--- a/Lib/ConfigParser.py
+++ b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
r'\]' # ]
)
OPTCRE = re.compile(
- r'(?P<option>[^:=\s]+)' # very permissive!
+ r'(?P<option>[^:=\s][^:=]*)' # very permissive!
r'\s*(?P<vi>[:=])\s*' # any number of space/tab,
# followed by separator
# (either : or =), followed
@@ -448,7 +448,8 @@
# comment or blank line?
if line.strip() == '' or line[0] in '#;':
continue
- if line.split(None, 1)[0].lower() == 'rem' and line[0] in "rR": # no leading whitespace
+ if line.split(None, 1)[0].lower() == 'rem' and line[0] in "rR":
+ # no leading whitespace
continue
# continuation line?
if line[0].isspace() and cursect is not None and optname:
@@ -488,7 +489,7 @@
# allow empty values
if optval == '""':
optval = ''
- optname = self.optionxform(optname)
+ optname = self.optionxform(optname.rstrip())
cursect[optname] = optval
else:
# a non-fatal parsing error occurred. set up the