On Mar 1, 2016 4:41 AM, "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > I cannot imagine why you would want to reload() in production code. That > > would imply that your production code is modifying already-imported > > modules, then wanting to import them again. Why would anyone in their right > > mind do that? Possibly because they lost a bet? > > BartC and I have both done this exact thing, though neither of us used > Python for it. It's not so insane as you might think; sometimes you > want to update code, but you don't want to restart a process. Just > because you've never had a process that hits a year of uptime doesn't > mean nobody else does. :)
I have a hard time understanding the appeal of super-long uptimes. I'm not even comfortable running a single kernel version that long. What's so awful about 5 minutes of announced downtime in the middle of the night once a month while the system restarts? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
