RE: [Jython-users] reload command

[brian z. <bz...@zi...>]

Rasmus,

Python's reload() does not work recursively, but this replacement does:

http://www.idyll.org/~n8gray/code/files/deep_reload.py

brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jyt...@li... 
> [mailto:jyt...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Rasmus Fogh
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:01 PM
> To: jyt...@li...
> Subject: [Jython-users] reload command
> 
> 
> Dear Jython users,
> 
> If I do module1=reload(module1) and module1 contains the 
> statement 'import module2', should the reload statement 
> automatically reload module2? If not, how can I make sure 
> that all imported modules are reloaded?
> 
> ObjectDomain has embedded Jython in their UML modelling 
> program, and in their newest version reloading module1 does 
> *not* reload module2 in this situation. ObjectDomain support 
> claims that the reason is their recent change from Jython 1.2 
> to Jython 2.0, and that *not* reloading mocule2 in the above 
> situation is correct behaviour. Is this true?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Rasmus
> 
> ==============================================================
> ============
> 
> Appendix - Painfully detailed description of the problem follows:
> 
> The system properties are:
>  Java: IBM corporation, 1.3.0, downloaded bundled with ObjectDomain.
> OS: arch x86, Linux, 2.2.17-21mdk
> Java Class Version 46.0, compiler jitc
> ObjectDomain version 3.00.203
> 
> 
> My test files are the following:
> 
> test.py:
> import subtest
> def dotest():
>   print 'Original version'
> 
> subtest.py:
> def dosubtest():
>   print 'Original subversion'
> 
> 
> The behaviour observed is:
> 
> Open ObjectDomain
> type 'import test' in python shell window.
> test.dotest() prints 'Original version'
> test.subtest.dosubtest() prints 'Original subversion'
> 
> Now edit test.py and subtest.py to print 'Modified (sub)version'
> 
> Restart python interpreter (green flag icon).
> import test.py, either using up-arrow to get the 'import 
> test' command,
>        or typing in 'import test' directly.
> test.dotest() prints 'Original version'
> test.subtest.dosubtest() prints 'Original subversion'
> 
> type 'test = reload(test)'
> test.dotest() prints 'Modified version'
> test.subtest.dosubtest() prints 'Original subversion'
> 
> 
> This behaviour means that you are forced to exit and re-enter 
> the program if you modify a script that is imported through 
> another script - surely this cannot be the intention.
> 
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> Dr. Rasmus H. Fogh                  Email: r.h...@bi...
> Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge,
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