[python 3.0] reload() gone?

[Bernard Lebel]

I read in the Python 3.0 documentation that reload() was removed,
without further explanations.

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html?highlight=reload


So what are we supposed to do to reload modules?


Thanks
Bernard

 

[Arnaud Delobelle]

I read in the Python 3.0 documentation that reload() was removed,
without further explanations.

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html?highlight=reload

So what are we supposed to do to reload modules?

PEP 3100 says: use exec() instead.

 

[Chris Mellon]

PEP 3100 says: use exec() instead.

However, it provides no information on how to do this. exec("import
foo") doesn't do it. exec(open(foo.__file__)) doesn't work either, but
that might just be teething problems (open returns a TextIOWrapper
object which exec doesn't identify as a file).

exec(open(foo.__file__).read(), foo.__dict__) was the best I could
come up with. That's frigging horrible, and it won't work unless
you've got access to the actual python source file of the module.