On Jun 22, 8:28 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ;-)
There's one simple solution - ConfigObj. It is a config file reader and preserves order: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html Fuzzyman http://www.ironpython.info > > cheers, > Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
