dynamic modules

[Michael Hudson]

Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Marek Budyn wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I wanted go create dynamically loaded and removed plugins. I mean, id a
> > module a initalizes with 10 MB data structude, i would like to remove it
> > from memory if it is not needed eg.
> > 
> > p1 = import plugin1
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > unload(p1)
> > 
> >  Is it possible in python ? And if so, how can I do this ?
> > Thanks for help!
> 
> import plugin1 as p1
> 
> ...
> 
> del p1
> 
> 
> In the next gc pass it should get picked up.

This won't work; consider sys.modules.

unloading has been a topic of discussion on python-dev in the last few
days, but no conclusions have been reached.  It's a hard problem.

CHeers,
M.

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