Ideally, I would have made a wrapper to add/delete/modify/read from the dictionay.
But other than this, one way i can think straight off is to "pickle" the dict, and to see if the picked object is same as current object. cheers, amit. On 12 Jan 2006 01:15:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can think of several messy ways of making a dict that sets a flag if > it's been altered, but I have a hunch that experienced python > programmers would probably have an easier (well maybe more Pythonic) > way of doing this. > > It's important that I can read the contents of the dict without > flagging it as modified, but I want it to set the flag the moment I add > a new element or alter an existing one (the values in the dict are > mutable), this is what makes it difficult. Because the values are > mutable I don't think you can tell the difference between a read and a > write without making some sort of wrapper around them. > > Still, I'd love to hear how you guys would do it. > > Thanks, > -Sandra > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- ---- Endless the world's turn, endless the sun's spinning Endless the quest; I turn again, back to my own beginning, And here, find rest. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
