Controlling Yaml Serialization Order in Python

Question

How do you control how the order in which PyYaml outputs key/value pairs when serializing a Python dictionary?

I\'m using Yaml as a simple serialization format in a

Answer 1

New Solution (as of 2020 and PyYAML 5.1)

You can dump a dictionary in its current order by simply using

yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False, sort_keys=False)