hungjunglu@[...].com (Hung Jung Lu) writes:

>  Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck@[...].net> wrote:
> > [1] Here are a few of the hacks I'm using, in case anyone might 
> >     find them useful -- or even better tell me about better 
> >     alternatives (If someone has cooked something reasoable 
> >     for reloading modules, I'd love to hear about it).
> 
>  I have already answered to you on one previous occasion, 

Sorry, maybe I missed it (at the time I had no access to a reliable
newsserver, so many articles didn't show up).

>  and told you another time in this present thread. 

Yep, I've guessed correctly that your mention of weakrefs alluded to a
technique along those lines -- I haven't finished my reply to your article yet
as I sunk quite a bit of time on debugging IPython yesterday.

>  I've used this kind of trick in wxPython. It's good for interactively
>  developing widgets, without re-starting your program.
> 
>  Now here is a third try. :)

Thanks for your trying again, I've only had time for a glance but this looks
quite neat -- I notice that it has evolved a bit since your original posting
:)

So far I have shied away from a metaclass based solution, as I got by with the
simple hack I posted and this hack doesn't require modifications to source
code. Another reason was that metaclasses don't combine well, but since I
haven't ended up using metaclasses much so far that might not be a problem. So
thanks for posting this, it looks quite useful.

'as