Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
> It should instead show the lines from the file as it was when the code was > executed. How is Python supposed to do that without making a copy of every module and script it runs just in case it gets modified? (That's not a rhetorical question -- if you can think of a cheap way to implement this, I'm listening :-) 99.99% of the time this would be a total waste of time, so this would be a very expensive exercise for very little gain. Python's startup time is already too slow without having to also make potentially hundreds of file copies every time you run a script. For the record, I too once ran into this issue. It left me utterly confused for an hour or so until I worked out what was happening, and then I never made the mistake of editing a running script again. ---------- nosy: +steven.daprano _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35857> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
