Be much more permissive in what we accept in section names; there has been
at least one addition to the set of accepted characters for every release
since this module was first added; this should take care of the problem
in a more substantial way.
This closes SF bug #132288.
diff --git a/Lib/ConfigParser.py b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
index 14412a3..94179da 100644
--- a/Lib/ConfigParser.py
+++ b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@
# of \w, _ is allowed in section header names.
SECTCRE = re.compile(
r'\[' # [
- r'(?P<header>[-\w_.*,(){} ]+)' # a lot of stuff found by IvL
+ r'(?P<header>[^]]+)' # very permissive!
r'\]' # ]
)
OPTCRE = re.compile(