On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:47 AM, bsneddon <bsned...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I saw an issue on winXP box not connected to internet yesterday, > where i was running > a script in the interactive window on PythonWin . I would modify the > script save and > import and was still running the old version. I did that several > times with same result. > I even renamed the function and it showed up but ran the old script. > Very strange. > > I tried reproducing this morning on a machine that is connected to > internet was unable to > but did get the behavior below that I do not understand. > > created module named spam with this code. > def ello(): > print "Your father smells of elderberrys" > > Here is expert for interactive window to explain the issue: question > is below. > > PythonWin 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03) > I > > > renamed ello to insult and re-imported. > >>>> dir(spam) > [clip.. 'ello', 'insult'] > > ello still exist in namespace an runs ... not so strange >>>> spam.ello() > Your father smells of elderberrys > >>>> del(spam) > delete spam and it no longer runs as expected. > > modify insult to this: > def insult(): > print "Your father smells of elderberrys/n and your mother was a > kiniggit" > > Q. > on re-importing spam ello is back and continues to run. I did note > expect this to be the > case. Can someone explain what is happening? > >>>> dir(spam) > [clip..., 'ello', 'insult'] >>>> spam.ello() > Your father smells of elderberrys >>>> spam.insult() > Your father smells of elderberrys/n and your mother was a kiniggit >>>> > > > Thanks for your help. > > Bill Sneddon
The reload() function might be what you need: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#reload HTH, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
