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Re: unloading a module created with imp.new_module

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  Re: unloading a module created with imp.new_module Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd@gmail.com> - 2014-11-24 21:48 -0900

#81488 — Re: unloading a module created with imp.new_module

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> On Nov 24, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 24, 2014 1:27 AM, "Patrick Stinson" <patrickkidd@gmail.com <mailto:patrickkidd@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > How does the __del__ method have a reference to the module’s globals dict? because it references the print function?
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> The module's dict becomes the __globals__ dict used by the function for looking up globals and builtins.
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Wow, that’s very helpful and good to know. Funny I never ran into that when doing this via an extensive CPython embedding project. Or maybe I ignored it.
> > Crazy. Is there any other way to comfort when a module is being deleted beside defining a class object with a printing dtor?
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> Modules don't strictly have to be ModuleType. You could substitute a class with a __del__ method for the module itself for testing this. Be careful with leaving this in your production code though, as the presence of __del__ methods can interfere with garbage collection and are not advisable prior to 3.4.
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> You can also test whether an object is still in memory by looking for it in gc.get_objects() although be warned that is an expensive call.
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Interesting concept. One thing I am doing is allowing one script to import another by name. So in my gui I’ll have a panel for each script with a line edit to set the name, which then generates an appropriate slug. Is it still possible to import non-module objects? I guess this question is just for fun now :)


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