Ok. Thanks for letting me know. Call me Clark. I go by my middle name. I need to change my yahoo account. Does the implementation you describe do the following: 1. Can it be used in per file type of operation (i.e. reload a file of code). It sounds like it can. 2. Will it update variables containing pointers to functions and pointers to methods. As long as the function/method data is being modified in place, this algorithm will work. ----- Original Message ---- From: Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> To: python-ideas@python.org Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:11:38 PM Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Enhance reload Joseph Maurer wrote:

Please shot this down this high level implementation if it won't work in the current code base.

Joseph, you're going to have to learn more about how Python works if you want to take this any further. It's not really possible to discuss it in terms as high-level as this. You're making some assumptions about the overall structure that aren't really true. There is an approach that might work, but it's rather different. Instead of trying to load the new code directly into the old module, load it into a new, temporary module and then compare the contents of the two, transferring selected parts where appropriate. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz