On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jack Bates <ms...@freezone.co.uk> wrote: > I have two objects, and I want to replace all references to the first > object - everywhere - with references to the second object. What can I > try?
If using PyPy instead of CPython is an option, the "thunk" object space's "become" function can apparently do this: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/objspace-proxies.html#the-thunk-object-space In CPython, this might be a tad difficult. At the C level, a reference to a python object is just a pointer to it. You could iterate through the entire address space looking for values that equal a particular pointer, but changing them would be dangerous, since memory isn't labeled by type - you can't tell if the memory is a pointer to your object or an important part of some other data structure. If you could narrow down what you want to accomplish, this might be easier. For instance, if all you need is to replace module-level references to the object, that can be done. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
