How can I make a dictionary that marks itself when it's modified?

[garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk]

sandravandale at yahoo.com 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.


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