[mod_python] import requires apache restart?

This is quite normal behaviour. Standard Python modules and packages
are not candidates for reloading. Read the documentation for
import_module() in:

  http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/pyapi-apmeth.html

This explains the line of separation between when mod_python can and
can not automatically reload modules.

Graham

On 19/10/2007, apocalypznow <apocalypznow at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed something, and I wonder if someone could please confirm if
> this is the correct behaviour.  In my httpd.conf file, I've included the
> path to a location where my python files are using the PythonPath
> directive.  In my handler code file, I issue a standard "import"
> statement rather than the mod_python (or for that matter,
> vampire.importModule) versions of the import.  To give light protection
>   (against authoring infringement) to my source files, after I
> py_compile them, I delete the original .py files.
>
> Even after changing the source of the files in the PythonPath, and after
> py_compiling them, and after removing the original .py files, I found
> that an Apache restart is required for the changes to be effected.  Does
> this make sense?  If that is the case, is there some copy of the python
> file being made by mod_python somewhere?
>
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