edit a file with nameless section with ConfigParse

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I am tryng to edit a Splunk config file that has a section with no name

Conf file

# Application-level permissions

[]
access = read : [ * ], write : [ admin, power ]

Code

>>> import configparser
>>> config = configparser.RawConfigParser()
>>> config.read('sh-apps-pro/indexed_volume/metadata/default.meta')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
    config.read('sh-apps/pro/indexed_volume/metadata/default.meta')
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports/configparser/
__init__.py", line 705, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports/configparser/
__init__.py", line 1101, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: 'sh-apps-pro/indexed_volume/metadata/default.meta', line: 4
u'[]\n'

I tried to set the default_section as an empty string with

config = configparser.RawConfigParser(default_section='')

But it looks like is not considered a valid name because it launches the same exception

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