[Python-Dev] Extension to ConfigParser (original) (raw)

Tony Meyer t-meyer at ihug.co.nz
Tue Jan 31 00:13:03 CET 2006

[Guido van Rossum]

What would break if we rewrote the save functionality to produce a predictable order?

As a reminder to anyone interested, there are three patches on SF
that provide this (each in a different way):

ConfigParser to accept a custom dict to allow ordering http://python.org/sf/1371075 Adds an optional argument to the constructor, the value of which will
be the class used to store the configuration data (so that a third- party order-preserving dictionary class can be used).

ConfigParser to save with order http://python.org/sf/1399309 Does a sort() of the sections and options before writing them.

Add 'surgical editing' to ConfigParser http://python.org/sf/1410680 Adds an update_file method (no other changes) that updates the given
file to match the current configuration, preserving blank lines,
comments, and order. [Disclaimer: this is my patch]

=Tony.Meyer

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