7 Dec
2006
7 Dec
'06
7:53 p.m.
At 01:55 PM 12/7/2006 -0500, Alexander Michael wrote:
Once a script has started, is it possible to forcibly ignore the version of a package listed in easy-install.pth and tell pkg_resources to require a newer version that is available on the sys.path?
Yes, but it's only possible with a crude hack at the moment. Explicitly add your new version to the beginning of sys.path, then call pkg_resources.working_set.__init__(). This will clear and reset the global working set to match the current state of sys.path.