Preserve order of Pipfile

Every time the Pipfile is changed the Pipfile section arrangement might, too. Which is a pain if you have to review such changes. Especially if it’s the case for Pipfile and Pipfile.lock.

I’m not very familiar with TOML and the Python package used but maybe it’s possible to preserve the order when writing to the Pipfile? (Using OrderedDicts internally or something).

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TODO (this section by Kenneth Reitz)

• determine if TOML library supports dumping OrderedDicts.
• determine if TOML library supports loading OrderedDicts.
• implement preserve order in Pipfile
• implement preserve order in Pipfile.lock

[kennethreitz]

It does support ordered dicts for loading!

print toml.loads(toml.dumps(d), _dict=OrderedDict)

[kennethreitz]

I will have to investigate ordering of the lockfile and, most likely, the order of the resulting requirements.txt.