Request: Use normal dictionaries instead of OrderedDict

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Request: Use normal dictionaries instead of OrderedDict

Opened this issue 2 years ago · 2 comments

Can we get an option that parse will return the object as normal dictionaries instead of OrderedDict?

Answer 1 · 2022-11-17T12:41:18.000Z

xmltodict.parse(xml, dict_constructor=dict) is already available since a few years.

If it's not working for you, you should state your Python version and your xmltodict version.

using dict instead of OrderedDict is also the default if you're using Python 3.7+ (dicts with insertion order are only an implementation detail in C-Python 3.6, not an official Python feature).

related issue: #252

Answer 2 · 2023-06-06T02:30:10.000Z

The "dict_constructor" keyword is not mentioned in the docstring of parse() - not in v0.12.0, or at HEAD (https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict/blob/master/xmltodict.py#L202).