diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index ad6a641..3db5116 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -227,6 +227,13 @@
    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 @@
 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`
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index e61ad44..265f928 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@
 
   (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
 ===============
 
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py b/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py
index ced6679..51253d0 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
                         "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 @@
         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:")
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 5091941..b75ff6c 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 Kevin Altis
 Joe Amenta
 Mark Anacker
+Shashwat Anand
 Anders Andersen
 John Anderson
 Erik Andersén
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a65de66..68f36fc 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -398,6 +398,9 @@
 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
diff --git a/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c b/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c
index 184bdee..8bfc9ba 100644
--- a/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c
+++ b/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 @@
     {"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}
 };