[Python-Dev] ConfigParser to save with order

[Guido van Rossum]

I think it's moot unless you also preserve comments. Ideally would be
something that prserved everything (ordering, blank lines, comments
etc.) from how it was read in. Modifying a value should keep its
position. Adding a value should add it to the end of the section it's
in (unless there are cases where ordering is important to the
semantics -- are there?).

--Guido

On 1/7/06, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> ConfigParser saves the data in a not-predefined order. This is because
> it keeps, internally, the information in dictionaries.
>
> I opened a patch in SF 1399309 that orders the info to be saved in the
> file through the ConfigParser write() method.
>
> This patch does not let the user to specify the order, but allows to
> predict the order in which it'll be saved.
>
> There's another patch,  the 1371075, that allows to specify the order
> through an "ordered dict".
>
> What do we want ConfigParser to do?
>
> Regards,
>
> .    Facundo
>
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