Basically, I have an app and am making it possible for the users to automate it by writing python scripts that run against the app's API. It includes PyQt5 widgets, a QScintilla editor, and a simple API for I/O. Apple’s app store is the plan.
Right now I create a new module with types.ModuleType(‘something’), then exec the code in the module’s dict. Then when the user saves the script again in my editor, it deletes all top-level references in the module’s dict that don’t belong to the core list: ['__spec__', '__name__', '__loader__', '__package__', '__doc__', '__builtins__’] before running exec again. So far this seems to effectively “delete” the old module and re-compile it with the updated source. For example I can create Qt Widgets on the module level and they are safely deleted when the script is saved. > On Nov 23, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > > On 11/23/14 1:49 AM, Patrick Stinson wrote: >> If I create a module with imp.new_module(name), how can I unload it so that >> all the references contained in it are set to zero and the module is >> deleted? deleting the reference that is returned doesn’t seem to do the job, >> and it’s not in sys.modules, so where is the dangling reference? >> >> Thanks! >> > > This sounds tricky, and possible very difficult to do properly. Do you mind > if I ask what the larger problem is? Python might not be very good at having > modules come and go as you want. > > -- > Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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