Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
There's a case to be made that the current regex is buggy. It already accepts whitespace around the header name but doesn't strip it. ISTM, this is undesirable: [ section header ] --> ' section header ' instead of 'section header'. >>> import configparser >>> r = configparser.ConfigParser.SECTCRE >>> r.match('[ section header ]').group('header') ' section header ' That result is not want people would usually want or expect. I don't see any advantage to deferring this to 3.3. ---------- keywords: +easy -patch nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11027> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com