Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]> 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.
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keywords: +easy -patch
nosy: +rhettinger
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