There's probably a better workaround, but I couldn't find anything in the documentation or the source.
Python 2 (see comments)
I subclassed OrderedDict
and made it return a list of unsortable items:
from collections import OrderedDict
class UnsortableList(list):
def sort(self, *args, **kwargs):
pass
class UnsortableOrderedDict(OrderedDict):
def items(self, *args, **kwargs):
return UnsortableList(OrderedDict.items(self, *args, **kwargs))
yaml.add_representer(UnsortableOrderedDict, yaml.representer.SafeRepresenter.represent_dict)
And it seems to work:
>>> d = UnsortableOrderedDict([
... ('z', 0),
... ('y', 0),
... ('x', 0)
... ])
>>> yaml.dump(d, default_flow_style=False)
'z: 0\ny: 0\nx: 0\n'
Python 3 or 2 (see comments)
You can also write a custom representer, but I don't know if you'll run into problems later on, as I stripped out some style checking code from it:
import yaml
from collections import OrderedDict
def represent_ordereddict(dumper, data):
value = []
for item_key, item_value in data.items():
node_key = dumper.represent_data(item_key)
node_value = dumper.represent_data(item_value)
value.append((node_key, node_value))
return yaml.nodes.MappingNode(u'tag:yaml.org,2002:map', value)
yaml.add_representer(OrderedDict, represent_ordereddict)
But with that, you can use the native OrderedDict
class.