2011/7/23 Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com>: > The documentation[1] doesn't say, but the implementation of the imp > module makes me wonder if sys.modules was not meant to be replaceable. > No doubt this has to do with its tie to the interpreter's modules > dict. I ran into this doing "sys.modules = sys.modules.copy()" to > protect the actual sys.modules dict during some import related test > cases. If the modules I imported were extension modules it broke. > > So, is sys.modules not meant to be open to re-binding?
Not any more or less than other global mutable objects. You can expect other code to be holding on to old references. -- 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
