Hi, This seems to be an old question, and I've read back a bit, but rather than assume the answer is "you can't do that", I'd thought I'd post my version of the question along with a reproducible error to illustrate my confusion.
My problem is that I'm using Python inside XSI (a 3D graphics application). If I want to restart Python, I have to restart XSI. This is no small amount of time wasted. The solution would be to somehow unload modules and all references and allow my imports to rebuild the cache. I suppose it would be great to clear the python session completely, but the 3D application might have added something to the session at startup (I doubt this though as I don't see any imported modules outside the norm). I've tried to use reload with a very simple algorithm. Simply run through every imported module, ignoring anything that is "None" or on the C: drive (all of our python is on a network drive so this hack works for me for now) and reload() it. I've come to realize that this isn't near intelligent enough to handle sub-packages. Before I post the repro, my questions are: 1) Does anyone have a work-flow for my situation that doesn't use Reload, and doesn't involve restarting the app for every edit/fix 2) Can anyone help point me in the right direction to build a dependable algorithm to cleanly reload all loaded modules? NOTE: I don't need to maintain anything in memory (i.e. instances, pointers, etc.) Everything will be initialized again each time. I'm not asking for code. Just some ideas or pseudo-code would do nicely. Here is a "simple" repro... Package Structure: --------------------------- inheritRepro __init__.py baseLib.py child __init__.py __init__.py: ---------------- import sys, os def reloadModules(): """ Reload all imported modules that are not on the C: drive. """ print "Reloading Python Modules..." # Iterate over all IMPORTED modules modules = sys.modules for modName in modules: mod = modules[modName] # Skip None types and other itesm we don't care about if modName == "__main__" or not hasattr(mod,"__file__"): continue # Get the drive and skip anything on the C: drive drive = os.path.splitdrive(mod.__file__)[0] if drive != "C:": reload(mod) print "Reloaded %s" % mod baseLib.py: --------------- class BaseClassA(object): pass class BaseClassB(BaseClassA): def __init__(self): super(BaseClassB, self).__init__() child.__init__.py: ------------------------ import inheritRepro.baseLib as baseLib class ChildClass(baseLib.BaseClassB): def __init__(self): super(ChildClass, self).__init__() RUN: ------- >>> import inheritRepro >>> import inheritRepro.child as child >>> obj = child.ChildClass() >>> print obj <inheritRepro.child.ChildClass object at 0x00B34C70> >>> inheritRepro.reloadModules() # Output omitted, but this worked. >>> import inheritRepro >>> import inheritRepro.child as child >>> obj = child.ChildClass() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 0, in <module> File "\\nas6tb\PROJECTS\tech\users\rafe.sacks\python\inheritRepro \child\__init__.py", line 5, in __init__ super(ChildClass, self).__init__() File "\\nas6tb\PROJECTS\tech\users\rafe.sacks\python\inheritRepro \baseLib.py", line 6, in __init__ super(BaseClassB, self).__init__() TypeError: super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of type NOTE: this works if I don't use a sub-package for 'child' (child.py instead). Is it overly simple to assume reloading by file structure might work? Right now I'm getting around this by reload()-ing the right package after running reloadModules() if an error occurs. It's a bit frustrating that it cost me two days of work before I realized it was reload() causing this error and not super() or some other unknown-to- me inheritance/package structure problem. I rebuilt my code module by module until I noticed, quite by accident, that the thing worked once and then never again! ....oh well, these are the joys of learning the hard way. I know this was a long one. If you made it this far, thanks for reading, - Rafe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list