Comment regex fails with strings containing a # character

[xardnaxelax]

config.ini

[foo]
bar = ['lala', 'lele', 'here comes the # but this is not a comment']

Example:
mat = self._nolistvalue.match(value)
results in the following matching groups:

0: ['lala', 'lele', 'here comes the 
1:  but this is not a comment']

Replacing
(?:[^'"\#].*?)| # unquoted
with
(?:[^'"\#].*)| # unquoted
resolves the problem BUT leads to not correctly regexing real comments.

No idea how to easily fix that without rewriting the whole regex.

[jhermann]

Well, possibly re is just the wrong solution here, shlex might be a better way to (pre-)process this.

[robdennis]

I agree that re here seems brittle and I think someone should probably do something after 5.1.0 is shipped