Matthew - Yes, its pretty clever, I tried it. I noticed that on subsequent edits you don't have to re-execute the "import ftplib", which is convenient if you are entering this manually.
Thanks -john mark At 07:55 AM 9/24/2002 +1200, Matthew Sherborne wrote: >I think this will work... >---- >from ftplib import * >... > ># reload code below >import ftplib >reload(ftplib) >from ftplib import * >---- >That should update all the stuff that was imported by ftplib the first >time. But you'll have to call it in global space in order to update global >space. > >I vaguely remember doing it before, that's how sure I am it'll work. If >you want to have a method that update's the global namespace do this... > >def update(): > g = globals() > import ftplib > reload(ftplib) > for key, val in ftplib.__dict__: > g[key] = val > >I haven't tried that though, it's just a guess :) > >GBU >Matthew > >Jeff Shannon wrote: > >>John Mark Agosta wrote: >> >> >> >>>During interactive development one can reload modules that have been >>>imported and modified by doing a reload(module_name). How does this work >>>if the module was imported into the main module with the "from ... import >>>*" form? Is there a way to reload() them? >>> >> >>Not really. The problem is that you have no handle to the module itself, >>since >>you've thrown that away during the import process, so there's no good way to >>connect those names back to the module they came from. This is yet another >>reason why that form is usually better avoided, especially with modules >>that are >>still under development. >> >>Jeff Shannon >>Technician/Programmer >>Credit International >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>ActivePython mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs >>Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython >> >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
