Forgetting an import

Miki miki.tebeka at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 13:30:13 EDT 2007


Hello,

> I imported a set of functions from a file I wrote to interpreter
> shell:
>
> from myFile import *
>
> Now if I change functions in this file how can I make python forget it
> so I can force a fresh import?
"import *" is evil for many reasons, this is one of them :)

>>> import my_module
>>> my_module.add(1, 1)
4
[Hack]
>>> reload(my_module)
<module 'my_module' from '/tmp/my_module.py'>
>>> my_module.add(1, 1)
2

HTH,
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Miki <miki.tebeka at gmail.com>
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