Use a Thread to reload a Module?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1973.1166848471.32031.python-list at python.org>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?= <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>That module deals with accessing data from QuickBooks, marshaling it,
>and providing methods to access the marshaled data.  Having the server
>program keep that module and all of its data in memory makes the
>server run really fast, but yeah, it does get complicated now that
>it's storing 100's of MB of data.  I guess most people go to a
>database at this point?

Very, very yes.  Try using a SQLite in-memory database, maybe?

>It's just so easy to store the data in the Python objects I already
>need them in instead of converting to tables in a DB and then
>converting back.  So maybe this threading will work for me.

You might well run into problems with the import lock.  I strongly
advise against your current approach.
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