On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:01:42 +0200, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> > I'm completely perplexed by this behaviour. sys.modules() seems to be > > a regular dict, at least according to type(), and yet assigning to an > > item of it seems to have unexpected, and rather weird, side-effects. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > > > > > > Maybe when you assign 123 to sys.modules[__name__], you've removed the > last reference on <module '__main__' from 'funny.py'> and it is > garbaged. You are then loosing all your initial namespace. By Jove, I think you've got it! How obvious in hindsight. Thank you. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list