On 06 December 2003, Graham Fawcett said:
> Attached is a utility module that lets you "wrap" a PTL module in a proxy
> that will reload itself automatically if the source file changes. Since
> reloading is only done on modules that you wrap explicitly, there should be
> a minimum of side-effects.

Hmm, cool.  I think I like it.

> Example: From my main module, I want to reload the module 'buggy' whenever
> its source changes:
>
> # ---- main.ptl ----
>
> from rtemplate import Reloadable
>
> import buggy                  # load the module once
> buggy = Reloadable(buggy)     # wrap it
>
> _q_exports = ['buggy', ... ]
>
> ...

Yep, I definitely like it.  Simple, explicit, and most importantly,
non-magical.  I would add a proviso to the docs that module reloading is
sometimes useful, but impossible to implement correctly for all cases.
Still, if this hack works 70% or 80% of the time, it's worth adding to
Quixote.

I would rename the module to quixote.reloadable.  (A module that
provides one primary class should be named after that class.)  (Although
arguably the class could be better named: Reloader?  ReloadProxy?)

Graham, what execution mechanism have you used this with -- SCGI?
FastSCGI? mod_python? other?  I'll give it a try with FastCGI and see
how it works.

        Greg
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