text: Created on 2005-12-01 17:39 by mdelliot, last changed 2006-12-03 12:02 by loewis. This issue is now closed.
  In many cases it is preferrable for ConfigParser to
  maintain the order
  in which its items were added. This small change adds
  a `customdict`
  default argument to *ConfigParser's constructor to
  allow users to
  specify a custom dict.
  A useful example is::
  from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
  ConfigParser(customdict=my_ordered_dict)
  One such `my_ordered_dict` could be the ordered
  dictionary "odict"
  <>.
  Ordered dictionaries have been a recent popular topic on
  comp.lang.python, and there are a few possibilities for
  implementation, so it seems best that ConfigParser just
  offer a
  default argument to support such customization.
  I can submit a documentation patch if this idea is
  accepted.
  Thanks for the patch; I committed it with some modifications (e.g. renaming of the parameter to dict_type). Committed as r52908.
  Please include patches to the documentation and the test suite in the future.