[3.12] gh-116957: configparser: Do post-process values after DuplicateOptionError (GH-116958) #117013
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If you catch DuplicateOptionError / DuplicateSectionError when reading a config file (the intention is to skip invalid config files) and then attempt to use the ConfigParser instance, any values it had read successfully so far, were stored as a list instead of string! Later
get
calls would raise "AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find'" from somewhere deep in the interpolation code. (cherry picked from commit b1bc375)