A Newbie Question: How To Call Other Python Programs From A Main Python Program.

[Alex Martelli]

<jbranthoover at my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
> I have written several small Python programs.  These programs
> are not just functions but complete programs with their own menuing
> systems.
>
>         My question is,  how do I (and is it a good idea) call these
> independent Python programs from one main program that selects which
> program to run from a main menu?  I tried to use the import command.
> This seems to work OK except that the programs only run once.  If the
> same program is selected from the menu,  nothing happens.  It seems to
> return immediately without running the program.

If the module has already been imported, then you need to
call the built-in function
    reload
passing to it the module-object as its only argument.

sys.modules is a dictionary of all currently loaded modules,
with the modulenames as keys, so it's not hard to check if
you need to import, or to reload.


Alex