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From: Jonathan Fine on 17 Nov 2009 11:59
Hi

A big thanks to Armin Ronacher and Raymond Hettinger for
PEP 372: Adding an ordered dictionary to collections

I'm using ConfigParser and I just assumed that the options in a section
were returned in the order they were given. In fact, I relied on this fact.
http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

And then when I came to test the code it went wrong. After some anguish
I looked at ConfigParser and saw I could pass it a dict_type. So I
could fix the problem myself by writing an OrderDict. Which I duly
prototyped (in about an hour).

I then thought - maybe someone has been down this path before. A Google
search quickly led me to PEP 372 and hence to
http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/configparser.html
which says
class configparser.RawConfigParser(defaults=None,
dict_type=collections.OrderedDict)

So all that I want has been done already, and will be waiting for me
when I move to Python3.

So a big thank you is in order.

--
Jonathan
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