opposite of import

[Simon Brunning]

On 8/3/06, Gerhard Fiedler <gelists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is that guaranteed, or is that just until the garbage collector has removed
> the module (at some arbitrary point)?

I *think* it's guaranteed.

It's not a matter for the garbage collector. GC only exists to remove
cyclic references. Ordinary reference counting *would* remove the
module as soon as you de referenced it, but for the fact that Python
stashes a reference to the module in (IIRC) sys.__modules__. And you
mess with *that* at your peril. ;-)

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