On Sep 27, 5:36 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure the answer to this is No, but I thought I'd ask just in
> case...
>
> Is there a fast way to see that a dict has been modified? I don't care
> what the modifications are, I just want to know if it has been changed,
> where "changed" means a key has been added, or deleted, or a value has
> been set. (Modifications to mutable values aren't important.) In other
> words, any of these methods count as modifying the dict:
>
> __setitem__
> __delitem__
> clear
> pop
> popitem
> setdefault
> update
>
> Of course I can subclass dict to do this, but if there's an existing way,
> that would be better.
>
> --
> Steven
d = {"a": "b", "c": "d"}
d2 = d.copy()
assert d == d2
d["e"] = "f"
assert d == d2
Is this what you're looking for?
Geremy Condra
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