diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index ad6a641b977..3db51165732 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/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`
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index e61ad44f5f6..265f9282e57 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/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
 ===============
 
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py b/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py
index ced6679140e..51253d00247 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py
+++ b/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:")
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 50919413d97..b75ff6ce36c 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Billy G. Allie
 Kevin Altis
 Joe Amenta
 Mark Anacker
+Shashwat Anand
 Anders Andersen
 John Anderson
 Erik Andersén
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a65de665cc1..68f36fcc930 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/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
diff --git a/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c b/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c
index 184bdeef93a..8bfc9ba6568 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 @@ 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}
 };