ConfigParser module in 1.52 is buggy?

[Brian Lee]

Is ConfigParser module in Python 1.52 buggy? Follow is testing of
ConfigParser module both of 1.52 and 2.1. The module works well in
2.1 but not in 1.52.

Anyone in similar situations?

$ cat xmlrpcserver-sx_access.conf
[conf]

*                       = 127.0.0.1

$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Mar  3 2001, 01:35:43)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
Linux 7.1 
2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import ConfigParser()
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    import ConfigParser()
                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> import ConfigParser
>>> a = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
>>> a.read("xmlrpcserver-sx_access.conf")
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/ConfigParser.py", line 175, in read
    self.__read(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/ConfigParser.py", line 326, in __read
    raise e
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors:
xmlrpcserver-sx_access.
conf
        [line  3]: '*\011\011\011= 127.0.0.1\012'
>>>

$ python2.1
Python 2.1 (#1, May 11 2001, 21:59:20)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ConfigParser
>>> a = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
>>> a.read("xmlrpcserver-sx_access.conf")

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