In article <6cde71c6-5c56-40ea-9849-50fc44e5d...@o14g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, Santiago Caracol <santiago.cara...@gmail.com> wrote: > >a server program of mine uses data which are compiled to a Python >module for efficiency reasons. In some module of the server program I >import the data: > >from data import data > >As the data often changes, I would like to reimport it every n (e.g. >10) seconds.
Don't do that. ;-) I suggest using exec instead. However, I would be surprised if import worked faster than, say, JSON (more precisely, I doubt that it's enough faster to warrnat this kludge). -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Programming language design is not a rational science. Most reasoning about it is at best rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain wrong." --GvR, python-ideas, 2009-03-01 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list