Alex Martelli wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > But I can also record these changes in a seperate table which then > > becomes a "sorted" case ? > > somedict['x']='y', per se, does no magic callback to let you record > anything when type(somedict) is dict. You can wrap or subclass to your > heart's content to record insertion/deletion/update history, but that > ever-changing "seperate [[sic]] table" is entirely coupled to > 'somedict', not therefore "separate" at all, and should properly be kept > as an instance variable of your wrapper or subclass. > > That's a pretty obvious difference from cases in which the auxiliary > table used to define the ordering is REALLY *separate* -- independent of > the insertion/etc history of the dictionaries it may be used on. > So, it depends.
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