On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:37:06 +0100, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > 3/ if you really need to unload the previous module, it's a little bit > tedious. > > import mod1 > del mod1 > sys.modules['mod1'] = None
Assigning sys.modules[name] to None is not the same as deleting the entry. None has special meaning to imports from packages, and for modules it is interpreted as meaning that the module doesn't exist. >>> import math >>> del math >>> sys.modules['math'] = None >>> import math Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named math > # will unload mod1 assuming mod1 was the only > reference to that module. Which is highly unlikely. Any classes or functions from the module will keep the module alive. > But believe me, you don't want to mess up with the python import > mechanism. Unless you understand how it works. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
