I have a YAML setting file which creates some records in DB: setting1: name: [item,item] name1: text anothersetting2: name: [item,item] sub_setting: name :[item,item] When I update this file with setting3 and regenerate records in DB by: import yaml fh = open('setting.txt', 'r') setting_list = yaml.load(fh) for i in setting_list: add_to_db it's vital that the order of the settings (ID numbers in DB) stay the same each time, as I'm adding them to the db, and setting3 just gets appended to the yaml.load()'s end so that its ID doesn't confuse any records which are already in the DB. At the moment each time I add another setting and call yaml.load() records get loaded in different order which results in different IDs. Continue reading...
