How to get a running process to recompile certain scripts

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Paul Mackinney [mailto:paul at mackinney.net] 
> 
> I'm tinkering with a custom archiver for Mailman. My scripts 
> are getting
> called just fine, but I'd like to be able to update them 
> without having
> to halt Mailman.
[...]
>   # PaulArchiver.py
> 	sys.path.append(<my working dir>)
> 
> 	def PaulArchive.py(mailinglist, message):
> 	  MyWorkingScript(<params>)
> 
> The thing I don't know how to do is to have changes to the scripts in
> <my working dir> recompiled without restarting Mailman since it's a
> working server for other lists (that use the regular archiver).

Try:

  import PaulArchive
  reload(PaulArchive)
  PaulArchive.doSomething()

it will only work for code you execute after the reload, i.e. if you
have handles to e.g. functions in your module they won't get
refreshed...:

  a = PaulArchive.a
  reload(PaulArchive)
  a(...) # calls the old a
  PaulArchive.a(...) # calls the new a

-- bjorn