On approximately 11/23/2008 1:40 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Steven D'Aprano:
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:18:17 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote
Stef Mientki:
I would like to detect if a dictionary has been changed. So I would
like to have a modified-flag.
A solution is of course to create a SDict class, that works like a
normal dict, and also watches for changes and has an extra boolean
attribute.
What does the S stand for?
Untested and possibly incomplete:
def factory(methodname, cls=dict, flag=True):
def method(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.modified = flag
return getattr(cls, methodname)(self, *args, **kwargs)
return method
class SDict(dict):
__init__ = factory('__init__', flag=False)
__setitem__ = factory('__setitem__')
__delitem__ = factory('__delitem__')
clear = factory('clear')
pop = factory('pop')
popitem = factory('popitem')
setdefault = factory('setdefault')
update = factory('update')
Interesting technique. I must point out, though, that it doesn't
indicate if a dict has been changed, only that potentially changing
operations have been performed. So it really depends on what Stef
originally meant by changed, and perhaps what is meant by == :)
x = {'a', 3}
x['a'] = 3
Whether x has been changed by the second statement is the open
question. The above code would declare it has, but most people, when
shown before and after copies of the dict, with declare it hasn't.
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