Cashing in PythonWin name space?... seems unexpected to me
bsneddon
bsneddon at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 8 09:47:17 EDT 2009
I saw an issue on winXP box not connected to internet yesterday,
where i was running
a script in the interactive window on PythonWin . I would modify the
script save and
import and was still running the old version. I did that several
times with same result.
I even renamed the function and it showed up but ran the old script.
Very strange.
I tried reproducing this morning on a machine that is connected to
internet was unable to
but did get the behavior below that I do not understand.
created module named spam with this code.
def ello():
print "Your father smells of elderberrys"
Here is expert for interactive window to explain the issue: question
is below.
PythonWin 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03)
I
renamed ello to insult and re-imported.
>>> dir(spam)
[clip.. 'ello', 'insult']
ello still exist in namespace an runs ... not so strange
>>> spam.ello()
Your father smells of elderberrys
>>> del(spam)
delete spam and it no longer runs as expected.
modify insult to this:
def insult():
print "Your father smells of elderberrys/n and your mother was a
kiniggit"
Q.
on re-importing spam ello is back and continues to run. I did note
expect this to be the
case. Can someone explain what is happening?
>>> dir(spam)
[clip..., 'ello', 'insult']
>>> spam.ello()
Your father smells of elderberrys
>>> spam.insult()
Your father smells of elderberrys/n and your mother was a kiniggit
>>>
Thanks for your help.
Bill Sneddon
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