Be much more permissive in what we accept in section names; there has been

freddrake · freddrake · commit d4df94b56d76 · 2001-02-14T15:24:17.000Z
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
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ def remove_section(self, section):
     # 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(

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ def remove_section(self, section):`
`387`	`387`	`# of \w, _ is allowed in section header names.`
`388`	`388`	`SECTCRE = re.compile(`
`389`	`389`	`r'\[' # [`
`390`		`- r'(?P<header>[-\w_.*,(){} ]+)' # a lot of stuff found by IvL`
	`390`	`+ r'(?P<header>[^]]+)' # very permissive!`
`391`	`391`	`r'\]' # ]`
`392`	`392`	`)`
`393`	`393`	`OPTCRE = re.compile(`