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[3.10] gh-146333: Fix quadratic regex backtracking in configparser option parsing (GH-146399) (GH-148559) (GH-154081) - #155161

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Use negative lookahead in option regex to prevent backtracking, and to avoid changing logic outside the regexes (since people could use the regex directly).
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Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin encukou@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: Joshua Swanson 22283299+joshuaswanson@users.noreply.github.com

…ser option parsing (pythonGH-146399) (pythonGH-148559) (pythonGH-154081)

Use negative lookahead in option regex to prevent backtracking, and to avoid changing logic outside the regexes (since people could use the regex directly).
(cherry picked from commit 7e0a0be)

(cherry picked from commit a5969e8)
(cherry picked from commit 5755830)

Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Joshua Swanson <22283299+joshuaswanson@users.noreply.github.com>
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