Hi all, I recently needed to parse a file that was perfect for ConfigParser apart from one thing: the elements in the sections, although definitions, could in some cases clash with each other and therefore it was important to be able to retrieve them in the same order as they appeared in the file.
Unfortunately ConfigParser uses ordinary dictionaries for the section elements and they are therefore returned in an arbitrary order. The only solution I found was to copy ConfigParser.py and replace all the dictionaries with "sequential dictionaries" which are exactly like dictionaries except that elements are returned in the order they were inserted. (see http://home.arcor.de/wolfgang.grafen/Python/Modules/seqdict/Seqdict.html) I wonder if there was a better way? For example, is there any hook that could modify what is created by the statement x = {} I tried setting __builtins__.dict = ndict.seqdict But that didn't seem to have any effect on the above statement. As a secondary question, I find sequential dictionaries to be an essential part of programming in Python and I use them all the time. I wondered a bit if there were any plans or proposals to include them as part of the Python library? Regards, Geoff Bache -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
