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Graham Dumpleton
grahamd at dscpl.com.au
Thu Sep 15 12:46:11 EDT 2005
On 16/09/2005, at 2:09 AM, Steve Bergman wrote: > Huzaifa Tapal wrote: > >> I have been using my python based web application framework, slither, >> which was recently upgraded to be a mod_python handler for more than >> 6 months now for various applications at my company. One dillema I >> see with the persistent environment with mod_python is that everytime >> I update code in production, i have to restart apache so that my >> library modules can be reloaded as well as any caching I am using. >> >> I am using apache.import_module() to import any page modules in my >> applications and those get reimported at every change since they have >> the autoreload turned on. I also know that Vampire has a pretty good >> module importing system then that provided by apache.import_module(). >> I was wondering if it would be a good idea overwrite the >> __builtin__.import() method with that of Vampire's import_module or >> apache.import_module() so that the checks of "mtime" are done and the >> reloads happen automatically. >> >> Is there another better way of reloading all my library modules and >> refreshing the cache? > > I have a possibly related question. I'm new to mod_python, but I have > already noticed that if I have a module with a class that has a method > that returns, say, a list to a calling function in main, and then > change it to pass back, say, a dictionary, the interpretter sometimes > wants to continue to act like a list was passed, when the main program > is expecting a dictionary. The behavior is inconsistent in that > sometimes it works right and sometimes not. I think this might be > covered in question 3.1 of the FAQ, but I'm not sure I quite > understand what it is saying. > > Could someone enlighten me? Yes, your problem could possibly be related to this. For a more comprehensive list of issues with the module importing system see: http://www.dscpl.com.au/articles/modpython-002.html http://www.dscpl.com.au/articles/modpython-003.html Graham
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