Message 225715 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

I, for one, would actually prefer if global options were parsed by default and MissingSectionHeaderError was deprecated instead. From what little specification available, INI format does not require options be in sections [4, 5].

Additionally, "Linux and Unix systems also use a similar file format for system configuration" 6 and allowing global options being a (very sane) default would nicely fill this use case as well.

In general, the format is not well defined 6, so choice of name strict for an argument is kind of odd too. What is it conforming to?

It may be my sole opinion that parsing global options by default into a '' (or appropriate) section and deprecating MissingSectionHeaderError would benefit everyone [2, 9] and hinder few if any one at all [8, 9]. YMMV.