Unload Modules

[Joal Heagney]

Steve Juranich wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Curtis Jensen wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to find a clear answer on this, but how do I remove an
> > imported module?  I have some C modules that I import, the modules only
> > contain function calls.  However, they are pretty big, and I'd like to
> > unload these modules after I am done with them, in order to save on
> > memory.  I don't have the source for these modules.
> >
> > How can I unload these modules from within Python?  Thanks.
> >
>
> AFAIU, all you need to do is 'del <module_name>'.
>
> HTH-ly y'rs,
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stephen W. Juranich                         sjuranic at ee.washington.edu
> Electrical Engineering         http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
> University of Washington             http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli

Which works if you didn't use:

from <module_name> import *

like in wxPython.wx/.ogl/.stc. Otherwise, you've got a problem.

Joal Heagney/AncientHart