Extending ConfigParser

[Berthold Höllmann]

Hello,

For my application I need a config file parser. ConfigParser comes close
to my needs, so I made my own Parser class derived from the
ConfigParser:

class MyParser(ConfigParser.ConfigParser):

First I wanted to change the parsing routine to allow white space in
section and option names, so I added the lines:
    
    __SECTCRE = re.compile(r'\[(?P<header>[-\w ]+)\]')
    __OPTCRE = re.compile(r'(?P<option>[-.\w ]+)(?P<value>.*)$')

but section names containing blanks still lead to an error. I found the
problem when I tried to add my own "read" method. Looking to the
original class I found, that the main work is done in a method "__read",
so I added 

    def __read(self, fp):
        print "TEST"
        return

to my class but still got:

>python cfg_tst.py
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "cfg_tst.py", line 5, in ?
    C.read("dat/Lines_my.cfg")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/ConfigParser.py", line 175, in read
    self.__read(fp)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/ConfigParser.py", line 326, in __read
    raise e
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors:
dat/Lines_my.cfg
        [line 47]: '[station -3]\012'

So it seems, that class members whos names begin with "__" can't be
overloaded? Is this right, or have I overseen something?

Greetings

Berthold
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