#8845: expose sqlite3 inTransaction as RO in_transaction Connection attribute.

Patch by R. David Murray, unit tests by Shashwat Anand.

Doc/library/sqlite3.rst

@@ -227,6 +227,13 @@ Connection Objects
    one of "DEFERRED", "IMMEDIATE" or "EXCLUSIVE". See section
    :ref:`sqlite3-controlling-transactions` for a more detailed explanation.
 
+.. attribute:: Connection.in_transaction
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.2
+
+   :cont:`True` if a transaction is active (there are uncommitted changes),
+   :const:`False` otherwise.  Read-only attribute.
+
 
 .. method:: Connection.cursor([cursorClass])
 
@@ -806,7 +813,8 @@ So if you are within a transaction and issue a command like ``CREATE TABLE
 before executing that command. There are two reasons for doing that. The first
 is that some of these commands don't work within transactions. The other reason
 is that sqlite3 needs to keep track of the transaction state (if a transaction
-is active or not).
+is active or not).  The current transaction state is exposed through the
+:attr:`Connection.in_transaction` attribute of the connection object.
 
 You can control which kind of ``BEGIN`` statements sqlite3 implicitly executes
 (or none at all) via the *isolation_level* parameter to the :func:`connect`

Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst

@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
 
   (Contributed by Tarek Ziade.)
 
+* The *sqlite3* module has some new features:
+
+  * XXX *enable_load_extension*
+
+  * XXX *load_extension*
+
+  * New :class:`~sqlite3.Connection` attribute
+    :attr:`~sqlite3.Connection.in_transaction` is :const:`True` when there
+    are uncommitted changes, and :const:`False` otherwise.  (Contributed
+    by R. David Murray and Shashwat Anand, :issue:`8845`.)
+
+
 Multi-threading
 ===============
 

Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ class ModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
                         "NotSupportedError is not a subclass of DatabaseError")
 
 class ConnectionTests(unittest.TestCase):
+
     def setUp(self):
         self.cx = sqlite.connect(":memory:")
         cu = self.cx.cursor()
@@ -140,6 +141,28 @@ class ConnectionTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(self.cx.ProgrammingError, sqlite.ProgrammingError)
         self.assertEqual(self.cx.NotSupportedError, sqlite.NotSupportedError)
 
+    def CheckInTransaction(self):
+        # Can't use db from setUp because we want to test initial state.
+        cx = sqlite.connect(":memory:")
+        cu = cx.cursor()
+        self.assertEqual(cx.in_transaction, False)
+        cu.execute("create table transactiontest(id integer primary key, name text)")
+        self.assertEqual(cx.in_transaction, False)
+        cu.execute("insert into transactiontest(name) values (?)", ("foo",))
+        self.assertEqual(cx.in_transaction, True)
+        cu.execute("select name from transactiontest where name=?", ["foo"])
+        row = cu.fetchone()
+        self.assertEqual(cx.in_transaction, True)
+        cx.commit()
+        self.assertEqual(cx.in_transaction, False)
+        cu.execute("select name from transactiontest where name=?", ["foo"])
+        row = cu.fetchone()
+        self.assertEqual(cx.in_transaction, False)
+
+    def CheckInTransactionRO(self):
+        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
+            self.cx.in_transaction = True
+
 class CursorTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         self.cx = sqlite.connect(":memory:")

Misc/ACKS

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Billy G. Allie
 Kevin Altis
 Joe Amenta
 Mark Anacker
+Shashwat Anand
 Anders Andersen
 John Anderson
 Erik Andersén

Misc/NEWS

@@ -398,6 +398,9 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
+  attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
+
 - Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float
   and divided by float and int objects.  Results are rounded to the nearest
   multiple of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even

Modules/_sqlite/connection.c

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "module.h"
+#include "structmember.h"
 #include "connection.h"
 #include "statement.h"
 #include "cursor.h"
@@ -1551,6 +1552,7 @@ static struct PyMemberDef connection_members[] =
     {"NotSupportedError", T_OBJECT, offsetof(pysqlite_Connection, NotSupportedError), READONLY},
     {"row_factory", T_OBJECT, offsetof(pysqlite_Connection, row_factory)},
     {"text_factory", T_OBJECT, offsetof(pysqlite_Connection, text_factory)},
+    {"in_transaction", T_BOOL, offsetof(pysqlite_Connection, inTransaction), READONLY},
     {NULL}
 };