In many cases it is preferrable for ConfigParser to maintain the order in which its items were added. This small change adds a `customdict` default argument to *ConfigParser's constructor to allow users to specify a custom dict. A useful example is:: from ConfigParser import ConfigParser ConfigParser(customdict=my_ordered_dict) One such `my_ordered_dict` could be the ordered dictionary "odict" <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html>. Ordered dictionaries have been a recent popular topic on comp.lang.python, and there are a few possibilities for implementation, so it seems best that ConfigParser just offer a default argument to support such customization. I can submit a documentation patch if this idea is accepted.
Thanks for the patch; I committed it with some modifications (e.g. renaming of the parameter to dict_type). Committed as r52908. Please include patches to the documentation and the test suite in the future.
