... how? I'm writing an app that holds a public data dictionary from which other objects obtain part of their __dict__ values so they all work on the same dataset (yes I'm fiendishly clever and a constructor of unreadable sentences (and code) ;)).
My problem is that I haven't found an easy way to determine if said dictionary contents are still in use (so it is ok to delete them from the dictionary). I've thought about creating a dict subclass that counts the number of assignments and deletions but that seems cumbersome (an bug-prone). Is there a way to get the reference count of these datadict items? I imagine that this would be a more stable implementation of such a feature. Hope this gets my problem accross; if not just bash me and I'll reformulate. I'm not the best of explainers. Oh, and sorry if the solution to my problem is obvious (such as an __refcount__ attribute or some stupid oversight like that). c.u. wildemar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
