configparser shuffles all sections ?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

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()

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