Keeping Python loaded

[Kragen Sitaker]

"Matt Gerrans" <mgerrans at ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Where do I find mod_python and mod_snake?   I searched in my Python directory
> to no avail.   Are they a part of Apache?   Or Zope?

modpython lives at http://www.modpython.org/ and mod_snake lives at
http://modsnake.sourceforge.net/ --- they are both parts of Apache.

> One simple trick I was considering was to write a little Tkinter or wxPython
> UI that hangs out (keeping the engine running at all times) and just lets me
> name a script; it could then simply import it and call main().  Yes, this
> assumes there is a main(); I always have the "if __name__ == "__main__":
> main()" line at the end of my scripts, so they can all have the same entry
> point and can run stand-alone or be imported.  This is not a very general
> solution, of course...

I just wrote this script, which might be a somewhat better solution
--- it's fairly general-purpose, but if your scripts look at sys.argv,
you'll have to set that first.

#!/usr/bin/python

def runscript(filename):
    namespace = { '__name__': '__main__' }
    execfile(filename, namespace)
    return namespace

def main():
    import sys
    runscript(sys.argv[1])

if __name__ == '__main__': main()

HTH.