[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Still, I'd love to hear how you guys would do it.
Make a subclass of dict, or an object containing a dictionary, that has a special __setattr__ method that traps updates and sets that modification flag. There are contorted ways the caller can avoid triggering the flag, but Python is not Java and it in general makes no attempt to protect its objects against hostile code inside the application. Your suggestion of using pickle is shaky in my opinion, since pickle's docs don't guarantee that pickling the same dictionary twice will return the same pickle both times. If it happens to work that way, it's just an implementation accident. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
