Is there an easy way to rename a section in a config file using ConfigParser in python? I'd prefer not to have to delete the section and recreate it, but that is my only answer right now.
No. The builtin ConfigParser stores sections as _sections, which is a dict. Since this is python you could access that variable to do an easy copy.
(config._sections[new_name] = config._sections[old_name]; config._sections.pop(old_name)
But ConfigParser may change at some later date and this would break your implementation.
Therefore I don't recommend doing that, alternatively you could subclass ConfigParser and implement a delete_section or change the way options are stored.