reimport module every n seconds

[Aahz]

In article <6cde71c6-5c56-40ea-9849-50fc44e5decc at o14g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
Santiago Caracol  <santiago.caracol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>a server program of mine uses data which are compiled to a Python
>module for efficiency reasons. In some module of the server program I
>import the data:
>
>from data import data
>
>As the data often changes, I would like to reimport it every n (e.g.
>10) seconds.

Don't do that.  ;-)  I suggest using exec instead.  However, I would be
surprised if import worked faster than, say, JSON (more precisely, I
doubt that it's enough faster to warrnat this kludge).
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