Creating a ConfigObj from another ConfigObj instance preserves order.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/configobj.py b/configobj.py
index e9e6710..3be82d7 100644
--- a/configobj.py
+++ b/configobj.py
@@ -1264,10 +1264,17 @@ class ConfigObj(Section):
             # the Section class handles creating subsections
             if isinstance(infile, ConfigObj):
                 # get a copy of our ConfigObj
-                infile = infile.dict()
+                def set_section(in_section, this_section):
+                    for entry in in_section.scalars:
+                        this_section[entry] = in_section[entry]
+                    for section in in_section.sections:
+                        this_section[section] = {}
+                        set_section(in_section[section], this_section[section])
+                set_section(infile, self)
                 
-            for entry in infile:
-                self[entry] = infile[entry]
+            else:
+                for entry in infile:
+                    self[entry] = infile[entry]
             del self._errors
             
             if configspec is not None:
diff --git a/functionaltests/test_configobj.py b/functionaltests/test_configobj.py
index 6ecfec2..b7e3ac2 100644
--- a/functionaltests/test_configobj.py
+++ b/functionaltests/test_configobj.py
@@ -23,4 +23,7 @@ class TestConfigObj(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(c2.scalars, ['a', 'b', 'c'])
         self.assertEqual(c2.sections, ['section', 'section2', 'section3'])
         self.assertEqual(c2['section'].scalars, ['a', 'b', 'c'])
-        self.assertEqual(c2['section'].c.sections, ['section', 'section2', 'section3'])
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+        self.assertEqual(c2['section'].sections, ['section', 'section2', 'section3'])
+        
+        self.assertFalse(c['section'] is c2['section'])
+        self.assertFalse(c['section']['section'] is c2['section']['section'])
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