dottedish-unordered-unflattening-fix.patch

--- dottedish/api.py.orig	2011-06-20 15:13:38.391972253 +0000
+++ dottedish/api.py	2011-06-20 15:16:31.751972273 +0000
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 
 from simplegeneric import generic
+from operator import itemgetter
 
 
 ##
@@ -74,6 +75,9 @@
     """
     if container_factory is None:
         container_factory = lambda p, c: {}
+    else:
+        # the `.n` keys need to be in order in case of list-like containers
+        l = sorted(l, key=itemgetter(0))
     root = {}
     for (key, value) in l:
         set(root, key, value, container_factory=container_factory)