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Author	eric.snow
Recipients	Arfrever, BreamoreBoy, eric.snow, georg.brandl, gregory.p.smith, r.david.murray, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date	2013-11-05.17:42:53
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Message-id	<1383673373.76.0.138963255017.issue19499@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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+0 to just doing a reload. At the point you show someone "import this", it may be premature to be explaining reloading to them. Python is great because you usually don't have to hand-wave through some concepts in order to explain others. [1] Also, under Python 3 you have to import reload() separately: from imp import reload reload(this) [1] http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/08/scripting-languages-and-suitable.html

+0 to just doing a reload.  At the point you show someone "import this", it may be premature to be explaining reloading to them.  Python is great because you usually don't have to hand-wave through some concepts in order to explain others. [1]

Also, under Python 3 you have to import reload() separately:

from imp import reload
reload(this)


[1] http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/08/scripting-languages-and-suitable.html

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