configparser shuffles all sections ?

[Stef Mientki]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> stef <s.mientki at id.umcn.nl> wrote:
>>  I just used configparser for the first time and discovered that it 
>>  shuffled all my sections,
>>  and the contents of the sections too.
>>
>>  This makes human manipulation of the file impossible.
>>
>>  Is there a way to prevent this shuffling,
> 
> You could try getting yourself an ordered dictionary implmentation,
> say
> 
>   http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html
> 
> Then doing something like this (untested)
> 
>     class MyConfigParser(SafeConfigParser):
>         def __init__(self, defaults=None):
>             SafeConfigParser.__init__(defaults)
>             self._sections = odict()
>             self._defaults = odict()
> 

This might be good alternative,
I'll check that.

thank you all for the answers,
it's always good to know that I've not missed the simple solution ;-)

cheers,
Stef Mientki