Miloš Komarčević added the comment:
Thanks for the exhaustive explanation.
I did however come across a proprietary application that stores it's
configuration in an INI like file that exhibits this corner case behaviour with
section names, hence the suggestion for enhanc
New submission from Miloš Komarčević:
It would be good if ConfigParser supported angled brackets in section names by
being greedy when parsing.
For example, section:
[Test[2]_foo]
gets parsed as:
Test[2
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messages: 213554
nosy: miloskomarcevic
priority: normal
severity: normal