unloading a module created with imp.new_module

From	Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd@gmail.com>
Subject	unloading a module created with imp.new_module
Date	2014-11-22 21:49 -0900
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.16173.1416733471.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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If I create a module with imp.new_module(name), how can I unload it so that all the references contained in it are set to zero and the module is deleted? deleting the reference that is returned doesn’t seem to do the job, and it’s not in sys.modules, so where is the dangling reference?

Thanks!

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unloading a module created with imp.new_module Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd@gmail.com> - 2014-11-22 21:49 -0900
  Re: unloading a module created with imp.new_module Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-24 03:47 +0000

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