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Author	brett.cannon
Recipients	SilentGhost, brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan, rjdymond
Date	2015-02-09.15:45:49
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Message-id	<1423496749.96.0.399713096563.issue23412@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Because stat results are cached for performance reasons, it's possible to write to the file system and then try to read/import from it before the modification time for the directory even picks up that there was a change. For this reason there is importlib.invalidate_caches(): https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.invalidate_caches . I have opened http://bugs.python.org/issue23422 to track that the docs for importlib.import_module() point out invalidate_caches().

Because stat results are cached for performance reasons, it's possible to write to the file system and then try to read/import from it before the modification time for the directory even picks up that there was a change. For this reason there is importlib.invalidate_caches(): https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.invalidate_caches .

I have opened http://bugs.python.org/issue23422 to track that the docs for importlib.import_module() point out invalidate_caches().

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-02-09 15:45:49	brett.cannon	set	recipients: + brett.cannon, ncoghlan, SilentGhost, eric.snow, rjdymond
2015-02-09 15:45:49	brett.cannon	set	messageid: <1423496749.96.0.399713096563.issue23412@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2015-02-09 15:45:49	brett.cannon	create