>>>>> "greg" == Greg Ward  writes:

  greg> 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?

  greg> I have been down that road several times in the past, and it
  greg> *always* ended in tears.  Module reloading is a convenient little
  greg> hack in an interactive interpreter, but in a real-world long-lived
  greg> process, it is always doomed to failure.  Always.

It works in -- among others, I'm sure -- Erlang, Smalltalk, and Common
Lisp long-running processes; I'm curious about which Python features or
semantics (or implementation details, for that matter) prevent it from
accomplishing this attainable goal. (It really is a very nice capability
to have, obviously.)

Kendall Clark
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