Deprecating reload() ???

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Not so.  del sys.modules['mod']/import mod is effectively what reload()
> does.

Not quite -- reload() keeps the existing module object and changes
its contents, whereas the above sequence creates a new module
object.

The difference will be apparent if any other modules have done
'import mod' before the reload.

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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