[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. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
