configparser shuffles all sections ?

[Fuzzyman]

On Jun 23, 1:14 am, Fuzzyman <fuzzy... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 8:28 pm, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nos... at mailbox.kun.nl>
> wrote:
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> > Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > > stef <s.mien... 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.
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> > >>  This makes human manipulation of the file impossible.
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> > >>  Is there a way to prevent this shuffling,
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> > > You could try getting yourself an ordered dictionary implmentation,
> > > say
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> > >  http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html
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> > > Then doing something like this (untested)
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> > >     class MyConfigParser(SafeConfigParser):
> > >         def __init__(self, defaults=None):
> > >             SafeConfigParser.__init__(defaults)
> > >             self._sections = odict()
> > >             self._defaults = odict()
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> > This might be good alternative,
> > I'll check that.
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> > thank you all for the answers,
> > it's always good to know that I've not missed the simple solution ;-)
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> There's one simple solution - ConfigObj.
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> It is a config file reader and preserves order:
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> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html
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> Fuzzyman

Oh - and as a bonus, it preserves comments.


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> > cheers,
> > Stef Mientki