[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
if the dictionary is small and speed not important, you can wrap it in a class catching __getitem__ and __setitem__ and testing if repr(self) changes. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
