How to delete a module file
Olivier Ravard
olivier.ravard at novagrid.com
Thu Mar 3 06:29:58 EST 2005
Le lundi 28 février 2005 à 17:08 +0000, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit :
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:43:45 +0100, Olivier Ravard
> <olivier.ravard at novagrid.com> declaimed the following in
> comp.lang.python:
>
> >
> > Remark : This problem does not exist under Linux.
> >
> I think Linux just masks the situation. Windows won't let you
> delete the file because the OS still has it open (linked) to the process
> that did the import.
>
> Linux deletes the directory entry, so other programs can't find
> the file -- but the OS still has an unseen link to the actual file; the
> actual file doesn't go away until the total link count falls to 0.
>
So, what is the solution ?
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