On 17 March 2003, David Ascher said:
> Has anyone come up with a way to get quixote modules to get reloaded when
> they've been modified when running under mod_python?

I have been down that road several times in the past, and it *always*
ended in tears.  Module reloading is a convenient little hack in an
interactive interpreter, but in a real-world long-lived process, it is
always doomed to failure.  Always.  Unfortunately, it's been several
years since I bashed my head against this particular brick wall, so I
don't remember the details.  But I tried a *lot* of tricks, and they all
came to nothing in the end.

In other words: give up.  You have better things to spend your time on.

(For the record, my preferred mode of operation is to use a CGI script
when I'm actively developing code, so that the application reflects code
changes immediately -- for small apps, I can live with the sluggish
response time.  Then I use SCGI for extensive functional testing and of
course for real-world deployment.)

(Here's a loopy idea: put code in your Quixote that hunts down the
process that needs to be killed to restart: os.getpid() for SCGI, maybe
the same for mod_python, I dunno.  Then add a "restart" link to your app
for debugging.  It might work.)

        Greg
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