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bpo-38741: Definition of multiple ']' in header configparser
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📜🤖 Added by blurb_it.
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Added tests to ensure sections with ] in them are
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Merge branch 'configparser_handle_brace_in_header' of https://github.…
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Lib/configparser.py
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Expand Up @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ class RawConfigParser(MutableMapping):
# Regular expressions for parsing section headers and options
_SECT_TMPL = r"""
\[ # [
(?P<header>[^]]+) # very permissive!
(?P<header>.+) # very permissive!
\] # ]
"""
_OPT_TMPL = r"""
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-12-18-59-33.bpo-38741.W7IYkq.rst
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:mod:`configparser`: using ']' inside a section header will no longer cut the section name short at the ']'