Re: [Configobj-develop] Make ConfigObj and Section oredered

[L. C. <l.c...@gm...>]

Did you read the documentation?

It's supposed to be:

*for i in config['procedure'].scalars*
*
*
If I recall correctly.

-Leonardo


On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Arash Azarmi <aza...@gm...> wrote:

> As far as I try , it does not preserve , here is a sample code :
>
> *config = configobj.ConfigObj()*
> *config.filename = "file.name"*
> *procedure={}*
> *loop={'sweep':[],'contents':OrderedDict()}*
> *config['procedure']=procedure*
> *config['procedure']['var_1']=1*
> *config['procedure']['var_2']=1*
> *config['procedure']['loop.1']=loop*
> *config['procedure']['var_3']=1*
> *config.write()*
> *
> *
> *for i in config['procedure'] :*
> *    print i,'=',str(config['procedure'][i])*
> *    if i.find('loop')==0:*
> *        for j in config['procedure'][i]:*
> *            print j,'=',str(config['procedure'][i])*
> *
> *
> Output is :
> *
> *
> *
> var_1 = 1
> var_2 = 1
> var_3 = 1  <--------- This is out of order.It should be printed last of
> all.
> loop.1 = {'sweep': [], 'contents': {}}
> sweep = {'sweep': [], 'contents': {}}
> contents = {'sweep': [], 'contents': {}}
> *
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...>wrote:
>
>>  On 21/11/2011 21:09, Arash Azarmi wrote:
>>
>> Hi all ,
>> I am using configObj to store inputs from user.In my case, the sequence
>> matters so I can't let the configObj don't store sequence order.Both
>> Section and ConfigObj are implemented as ordinary dictionary {} . I tried
>> to change that to OrderedDict (from collections) but apparently it's not
>> working again.Has anybody a solution for this ?
>>
>>
>> ConfigObj does store (and preserve when reading / writing) order.
>>
>> See the documentation on the "sections" and "scalars" attributes of
>> sections:
>>
>>     http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html#section-attributes
>>
>> These attributes are normal lists, representing the order that members,
>> single values and subsections appear in the section. The order will either
>> be the order of the original config file, or the order that you added
>> members.
>>
>> The order of members in this lists is the order that write creates in the
>> config file. The scalars list is output before the sections list.
>>
>> Adding or removing members also alters these lists. You can manipulate
>> the lists directly to alter the order of members.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Michael Foord
>>
>>
>>  Thanks ,
>> Arash.
>>
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