2010/10/26 Peter Ingebretson <pinge...@yahoo.com>: > I have a patch that adds a new function to the gc module. The gc.remap() > function uses the tp_traverse mechanism to find all references to any keys > in a provided mapping, and remaps these references in-place to instead point > to the value corresponding to each key. > > The motivation for adding this method is to enable writing a module that > provide an enhanced version of imp.reload. The builtin reload function > is very useful for iterating on a single module within the Python interpreter > shell, but in more complex situations it very limited.
Is there any reason that you'd want to do this? ... > http://doublestar.org/python-hot-loading-prototype/ > > Please let me know if you have any feedback on the reloading proposal, the > hot loading prototype, or on the patch. Overall, I think this adds lots of backwards incompatible code for an obscure use-case that will cause subtle and complicated bugs. So, -1. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
