Ordering not respected when dumping just loaded file

ruamel.yaml is a YAML 1.2 parser/emitter for Python

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priority: major

kind: bug

Updated: 2022-01-07

Created: 2022-01-07

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First level order is not kept on dump.
See attached example and code to load and dump.
Thanks in advance

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Anthon van der Neut - 2022-01-07

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Anthon van der Neut - 2022-01-07

AFAIC the documentation states that you need the (default) round trip loader/dumper to preserve the order of keys. So you shouldn't provide typ='safe'. With the safe loader it makes no sense to specify preserve_quotes=True as it won't, that also only works with the round-trip loader.

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