[Python-Dev] ConfigParser with a single section

[Tim Peters]

[Gustavo Niemeyer]
> Patch #549037 implements an interesting feature: it allows one to have
> configuration files without headers. I'd like to know what's your
> opinion about this issue, so that we can either forget the issue or
> implement the functionality, closing that bug.

-0.  Complicates the code and the docs and the mental model to save what, 3
measly characters of typing (e.g., "[x]")?