And as a follow up to this, is there a straightforward way to get the importer to generate the .pyc files as it imports modules, like the standard Python import mechanism?
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:43 AM, dhyams <[email protected]> wrote: > [SOLVED] > > I finally tracked this down to the directory caching in iu.py. This > function: > > def _listdir(dir, cache={}): > # since this function is only used by caseOk, it's fine to > cache the > # results and avoid reading the whole contents of a directory > each time > # we just want to check the case of a filename. > if not dir in cache: > cache[dir] =listdir(dir) > return cache[dir] > > I tried modifying it to the following, but it still wasn't > enough....the file additions and > imports were happening fast enough that sometimes the modification > time didn't change > from one to the other. > > def _listdir(dir, cache={}): > # since this function is only used by caseOk, it's fine to > cache the > # results and avoid reading the whole contents of a directory > each time > # we just want to check the case of a filename. > mtime = _os_stat(dir)[8] > #print("MTIME[%s] = %s",str(mtime)) > if not dir in cache or mtime != cache[dir]['mtime']: > cache[dir] = {'mtime':mtime,'files':listdir(dir)} > return cache[dir]['files'] > > > So, I just knuckled under and just disabled the caching. After > thinking about it for > a bit, I think the caching is too dangerous anyway. The contents of a > directory are > volatile, and if one is going to have reliable behavior, we just have > to check the directory > contents in real time whenever an import is desired. So: > > def _listdir(dir, cache=None): > # Once upon a time there was caching here, but it's just too > dangerous. > return listdir(dir) > > Works fine. > > > > > > > > On Nov 15, 12:28 am, Daniel Hyams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, and I apologize; I did not mention environment or versions. > > > > Windows 7 > > pyinstaller 1.4 SVN grabbed tonight > > Python 2.6.x > > > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:53 PM, dhyams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello all; I have been beating my head against this one for a > > > while...there seems to be strange import behavior when the application > > > is in its 'frozen' state. > > > > > ... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PyInstaller" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<pyinstaller%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller?hl=en. > > -- Daniel Hyams [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller?hl=en.
