automatic reload

[Mike Driscoll]

On Nov 14, 11:04 am, Alan Baljeu <alanbal... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I need a solution for automatically reloading files I edited.  This is in a unit testing/fixing context, so there shouldn't be much problem with leftover data.  I just need to be able to call a reload_changed() method of some sort before rerunning tests.  Stopping and restarting the python interpreter (it's embedded) might be an option if (a) that's feasible within a process and (b) it's quick.
>
>  Alan Baljeuhttp://www.collaborative-systems.org
> Intelligent software that works _with_ you.
>

There's the "reload" builtin that you could use. In your method, just
call reload on the modules you need reloaded. TurboGears somehow
watches files for changes, so you might want to check out their source
to see how it works. I'm sure it's something similar.

Mike