Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
