Documentation for importing modules / pythonpath?

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Fri Feb 21 08:03:51 EST 2003


"Lexy Zhitenev" <zhitenev at cs.vsu.ru> wrote in ...
> When the module is imported it never gets reinitialized again. To do it
> explicitly use 'reload(modulename)', e.g.:
>
> >>> import sys
> >>> reload(sys)
>

Note, however, that this solution can not be expected to work for extension
modules (those written in a lower-level language and more intimately linked
with the interpreter functionality). You load those, and they stay resident.

regards
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