On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 11:16:28 -0500 > Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > In addition, it may be appropriate for importlib to offer a > > > "write_module" method that accepts (module name, target path, > > > contents). This would: > > > > > > 1. Allow in-process caches to be invalidated implicitly and > > > selectively when new modules are created > > > > I don't think that's necessary. If people don't want to blindly clear all > > caches for a file they can write the file, search the keys in > > sys.path_importer_cache for the longest prefix for the newly created > file, > > and then call the invalidate_cache() method on that explicit finder. > > That's too complicated for non-import experts IMHO. > Which is why they can just call importlib.import_module().
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