Uwe Schmitt wrote:
Python stores references in dictionaries and does not copy ! (unless
you explicitly use the copy module) !
In your case the entry in the dictionary is a reference to the same
object which f1 references, that is the object at 0xb7f0ba04.
If you now say "f1=...:" then f1 references a new object
at 0xb7f0b994, and the entry in your dictionary still references
the "old" object at 0xb7f0ba04.
Erm, I theoretically knews that, I guess I suffered temporary insanity
when I wrote "copies" of objects. To me it seems that Python actually
stores _labels_ referencing _objects_. Here, the problem was that the
label in the dictionary led to the "old" object.
I do not know any method to automatically update your dictionary
as there is no possibility to overload the assignement operator "=".
But may be somebody can teach me a new trick :-)
Theoretically I could define a class inheriting from dictionary and
define a property with a setter (and getter). But I would still have to
update the attribute manually, so plain dictionary is just as good.
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