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I want to laod a YAML-file to a dict. Everything I found is outdated, since Python 3.6 changed dicts to be ordered by insertion. What would be the proper way to do it?

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  • Would list `[(index, line)]` make sense? – Zazaeil May 30 '20 at 11:09
  • You could have a look at OrderedDict for this purpose: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16782112/can-pyyaml-dump-dict-items-in-non-alphabetical-order – Nico Müller May 30 '20 at 11:11
  • @SerejaBogolubov My dict is nested. I'm not really sure whether this would work. I would prefer a dict, especially since they preserve order now. I want to read the yaml, change some values and then dump it again. I think this would be easiest with a dict. (Please make different suggestions if you think, they would work) – waldelb May 30 '20 at 11:22
  • @NicoMüller What is the difference between Dict and OrderedDict, now that dicts are ordered by insertion? – waldelb May 30 '20 at 11:23

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It is possible to do that with ruamel. 

import ruamel.yaml

yaml = ruamel.yaml.YAML(typ='safe')
with open(path_to_file) as file:
    my_dict = yaml.load(file)
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