reloading modules question

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

"Syver Enstad" <syver at NOSPAMcyberwatcher.com> wrote:

>Is it safe to loop through sys.modules.items()
>reloading each module, as long as I catch the ImportError?
>
>Am I guaranteed to have all python modules reloaded if I do the loop twice?
>
>import sys
>for key, value in sys.modules.items():
>    if value:
>    try:
>         reload(value)
>    except ImportError, e:
>         print '%s\n' % e
>
>The reason I am asking is that IIS webserver keeps Python in memory so that
>it won't use the new versions of python modules I deploy if don't stop and
>start the webserver. I can't afford to stop the webserver all the time, so I
>am considering ways to reload the python modules while it's running.
>

I would suggest you are better off just stopping and starting the affected web sites. That's what we
do and it only takes a second.

You can automate the procedure using WMI or ADSI. I'm sure I used to have an example script but I'm
buggered if I can find it right now.

Try asking over in microsoft.public.scripting.wsh.


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Dale Strickland-Clark
Out-Think Ltd
Business Technology Consultants