Webware for Python

On 4/9/06, Christoph Zwerschke <cito@...> wrote:
> As promised, I have cut a new beta release. It contains all bug fixes
> and enhancements made after version 0.9 so far, plus a couple of other
> improvements and bugfixes I made this weekend.
>
> Particularly, ImportSpy now uses new import hooks instead of ihooks (if
> available) and can be disabled completely via the AppServer.config
> setting "UseImportSpy" (if this is false, sys.modules will be polled).
>
> This release contains also new versions of the mod_webkit.dll (for
> Apache 1.3 and Apache 2) for Windows users.
>
> Since I changed quite a lot, I have made this a beta release only.
> Anyway, this release should be completely downward compatible. If
> everything is ok, the stable release can follow very quickly.
>
> Please test and let me know of any problems!
>
> -- Christoph

Christoph, thank you for all your hard work on this!

-Chuck

Christoph Zwerschke wrote on 04/09/2006 08:07 AM:

> As promised, I have cut a new beta release. It contains all bug fixes 
> and enhancements made after version 0.9 so far, plus a couple of other 
> improvements and bugfixes I made this weekend.

Thanks Christoph!

>
> Particularly, ImportSpy now uses new import hooks instead of ihooks 
> (if available) and can be disabled completely via the AppServer.config 
> setting "UseImportSpy" (if this is false, sys.modules will be polled).
>
That could be a useful feature. Recently we had an issue where the name 
of a context clashed with the name of a Python package found through 
sys.path. The application dies with an import error that is tricky to 
debug because everything works fine on the command line. I would be 
interested in seeing if there is a speed/memory difference when 
ImportSpy is disabled. Unfortunately it will be a while before I have 
the bandwidth to put together a proper test.

- Ben