It appears that I am retarded.
For some reason, the thought that a wsgi instance might not reload stuff
never entered my head, because I thought "Oh, it's in a function even,
there's no way those bits can be carrying over." But... of course the
actual database bits have already been imported,
I seem to be having troubles getting sqlobject to play nicely with wsgi.
In short, sqlobject seems to be returning the same data that was fetched
before each time, until Apache is restarted.
Example code: (much simplified)
now = Table_Now.get(1)
data["some_field"] = now.some_field
//do somethi