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This looks like a solution, yes. Thanks.

@Oleg, please take a look. Maybe we really decided to add a new yaml lib too early.



Renat
On 15 Feb 2019, 00:16 +0700, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com>, wrote:
>
>
> On 2/14/19 10:46 AM, Oleg Ovcharuk wrote:
> > Matthew, we use not only load, but also dump. We can't use custom
> > constructor and default representer - the output will be terrible.
> > This custom constructor contains about 50 lines of code, representer
> > would have a similar count. Also, we should think about compatibility
> > with Python 2.7, 3.x and about it's performance.
> > Summary, we would have about 150 lines of code, which is just copy-paste
> > from `yamlloader` library.
> > IMHO, it is better to use existing solutions.
>
> You don't need a complex representer to dump OrderedDicts. It can be
> done in about three lines:
> https://github.com/cybertron/tripleo-scripts/blob/105381d4f080394e68a40327c398d32eb9f4f580/net_processing.py#L302
>
> That's the code I used when I wanted to dump dicts in a particular
> order. Once you add the representer OrderedDicts are handled as you
> would expect.
>
> >
> > чт, 14 февр. 2019 г. в 19:14, Matthew Thode <mthode at mthode.org
> > <mailto:mthode at mthode.org>>:
> >
> > On 19-02-14 16:58:49, Oleg Ovcharuk wrote:
> > > Hi! Can you please add yamlloader library to global requirements?
> > > https://pypi.org/project/yamlloader/
> > >
> > > It provides ability to preserve key order in dicts, it supports
> > either
> > > python 2.7 and python 3.x, it provides better performance than
> > built-in
> > > functions.
> > > Thank you.
> >
> > I'd like to know a little more about why we need this, yaml as a spec
> > itself doesn't guarantee order so order should be stored somewhere else.
> >
> > If all you need is ordereddict support something like this may be better
> > then adding yet another lib.
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/enaeseth/844388
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Thode
> >
>
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