In article <mailman.465.1278680555.1673.python-l...@python.org>, Frederic Rentsch <anthra.nor...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > >Module M says 'from service import *'. >Next I correct a mistake in function 'service.f'. >Now 'service.f' works fine. > >I do 'reload (service); reload (M)'. >The function 'M.f' still misbehaves.
Absolutely! >'print inspect.getsource (service.f)' and >'print inspect.getsource (M.f)' shows the same >corrected code. > >'print service.f' and 'print M.f' show different ids. > >So I do 'del M; reload (M)'. Nothing changes. > >I delete M again and run gc.collect () to really clean house. I reload >M again and still nothing changes. The id of the reloaded function >'M.f' is still the same as it was before the purge and so M.f still >isn't fixed. > >I know I have more radical options, such as starting a new IDLE >window. That would save me time, but I'd like to take the opportunity >to understand what is happening. Surely someone out there knows. Take a look at sys.modules to get a better idea of what's happening. (Maybe someone else will have time to write a longer answer.) But really, relying on reload() is foolish in the general case because it's nearly impossible to track down every single reference. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "....Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and your tail..." --Siobhan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
