Override the {…} notation so i get an OrderedDict() instead of a dict()?

Question

Update: dicts retaining insertion order is guaranteed for Python 3.7+

I want to use a .py file like a config file. So using the {.

Answer 1

OrderedDict is not "standard python syntax", however, an ordered set of key-value pairs (in standard python syntax) is simply:

[('key1 name', 'value1'), ('key2 name', 'value2'), ('key3 name', 'value3')]

To explicitly get an OrderedDict:

OrderedDict([('key1 name', 'value1'), ('key2 name', 'value2'), ('key3 name', 'value3')])

Another alternative, is to sort dictname.items(), if that's all you need:

sorted(dictname.items())