From d4df94b56d762c8d68e186c256a6d4b741044046 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:24:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Be much more permissive in what we accept in section names;
 there has been 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.
---
 Lib/ConfigParser.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/ConfigParser.py b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
index 14412a38bae..94179dacc62 100644
--- a/Lib/ConfigParser.py
+++ b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ class ConfigParser:
     # 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(