On Oct 9, 11:15 am, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > I'm working on a kind of IDE, to build and distribute Python programs. > > One of the parts is editing a build file for py2exe and running the > modified script. > > In the script editor I've an accelerator key, to launch these tasks: > - save modified script file > - run modified script file > - catch log and error information from py2exe > - launch the distro executable > > self.Edit.SaveFile ( self.Edit.Filename ) > Globalsx = {} > #Globalsx [ 'stdout' ] = self.Log > execfile ( self.Edit.Filename, Globalsx ) > > The above code (with or without the stdout redirection), > works perfect, .... > ... the first time ... > but does (almost?) nothing (doesn't crash, try / except around execfile), > although the source file "self.Edit.Filename" has changed. > > Could someone give me an explanation, why this happens ?
I'm guessing you have references to objects from the first time you ran execfile that don't get updated. It's kind of hard to tell. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list