Justin Standard wrote:
> I'm trying to make some small modifications to the xml.dom.minidom
> module. I'm developing on windows (since I have to at work), and I
> located the .py files which represent the module in the Python23/Lib
> directory, I made my changes to the file:
> Python/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py. However, when I run the interpreter,
> my changes aren't reflected.
Python23/Lib or Python/Lib ?
are you sure you know what you're editing? if you're not 100% sure,
import the module, and print its __file__ attribute:
>>> import xml.dom.minidom
>>> xml.dom.minidom.__file__
'/somewhere/python24/lib/xml/dom/minidom.pyc'
edit the corresponding PY file. if the PYC path looks suspicious, remove
the PYC file and try again.
> Do I need to rebuild python to make these changes take?
no.
> Or is there some other process to modify global modules. I realize that
> I _could_ have extended it, but this _seemed_ easier, and the work is already
> done.
and will be lost when you update Python, move your script to another
platform, etc.
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