Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload()

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 3:45:28 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 7:53:10 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:29 am, Ian Kelly wrote:
> > >
> > >> There's a big difference between
> > >> that and clocking a year of uptime just because you can, though.
> > >
> > > What other reason is there for having a year of uptime?
> > >
> > > It's not like it is difficult. My laptop doesn't actually go anywhere: for
> > > historical reasons, it's a laptop but it is (mostly) used as a desktop. It
> > > sits on my desk. If there's a power outage, the handy built-in UPS
> > > (battery) keeps it alive for an hour or two. I come in, I nudge the mouse
> > > to wake xscreensaver and authenticate; I do my work; then I run
> > > xscreensaver to lock the screen and leave.
> > >
> > > If I need access to something from home, I can SSH into the office network,
> > > and from there into the laptop.
> > >
> > > The OS is as stable as the surface of the moon, and simply doesn't crash or
> > > go down ever. (If only Firefox was as good, alas, but when it does crash it
> > > is nearly always because I've allowed Javascript to run on some popular,
> > > multimedia-rich, information-free website.) I don't reboot because I don't
> > > need to reboot. Why would you reboot just for the sake of rebooting?
> > 
> > Software updates? The nice thing about *nix systems is that *most*
> > updates don't require a reboot. I'm still going to reboot any time
> > there's a kernel update though, and those are fairly frequent. I could
> > read the patch notes to determine whether this new kernel version is
> > actually important, but it takes less of my time just to go ahead and
> > reboot.
> 
> Dunno what systems you folks use...
> My ubuntu(s) 15.10 seem to (my estimates not hard data)
> - update every couple of days
> - kernel/security updates every 2-3 weeks
> 
> "Stable as the surface of the moon"??
> Well thats strong
> The other day I 
> - aptitude purge-d the kernel I was running on
>   [I was trying to show off to someone that ubuntu would not allow that!]
> - machine kept running merrily but thereafter aptitude crashed
> - Until I rebooted an older kernel; installed the one I had removed and rebooted to that

Right now as I write this a libssl security update.
No suggested reboot
But I should be rebooting if I were paranoid about security