newbieq: IDLE 0.4 question

[Jason Trowbridge]

>From what I understand, Python caches the modules once they're imported
once.  If another module/scope imports that same module, it is given a
shallow copy of the loaded module (much faster & less memory than
loading a completely different copy).

Anyway, to reload the module, you need to call reload():
import mymodule
reload(mymodule)

sep wrote:
> 
> Hi, how do I tell the Python Shell to reload a module after I edit it?
> I do a save in the editor then import module in the shell and the old
> one is still in memory. del module seems to delete it but then import
> module and the old one is there. I know I'm missing something here. I'm
> on NT.
> 
> thanks,
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> Sepehr (Sep) Kiani
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