From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:18:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Allow square brackets in the option names; this makes it possible to use
X-Git-Tag: v2.1b1~392
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d83bbbfd222d7e399fd8b2b17492c1448dc4f2a2;p=python

Allow square brackets in the option names; this makes it possible to use
ConfigParser with GNOME-ish config files that use the internationalization
conventions found in GNOME.

This closes SF bug #131635.
---

diff --git a/Lib/ConfigParser.py b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
index 9d55ca7628..14412a38ba 100644
--- a/Lib/ConfigParser.py
+++ b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ class ConfigParser:
         r'\]'                                 # ]
         )
     OPTCRE = re.compile(
-        r'(?P<option>[-\w_.*,(){}]+)'         # a lot of stuff found by IvL
+        r'(?P<option>[]\-[\w_.*,(){}]+)'      # a lot of stuff found by IvL
         r'[ \t]*(?P<vi>[:=])[ \t]*'           # any number of space/tab,
                                               # followed by separator
                                               # (either : or =), followed