I saw an issue on winXP box not connected to internet yesterday, where i was running a script in the interactive window on PythonWin . I would modify the script save and import and was still running the old version. I did that several times with same result. I even renamed the function and it showed up but ran the old script. Very strange.
I tried reproducing this morning on a machine that is connected to internet was unable to but did get the behavior below that I do not understand. created module named spam with this code. def ello(): print "Your father smells of elderberrys" Here is expert for interactive window to explain the issue: question is below. PythonWin 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03) I renamed ello to insult and re-imported. >>> dir(spam) [clip.. 'ello', 'insult'] ello still exist in namespace an runs ... not so strange >>> spam.ello() Your father smells of elderberrys >>> del(spam) delete spam and it no longer runs as expected. modify insult to this: def insult(): print "Your father smells of elderberrys/n and your mother was a kiniggit" Q. on re-importing spam ello is back and continues to run. I did note expect this to be the case. Can someone explain what is happening? >>> dir(spam) [clip..., 'ello', 'insult'] >>> spam.ello() Your father smells of elderberrys >>> spam.insult() Your father smells of elderberrys/n and your mother was a kiniggit >>> Thanks for your help. Bill Sneddon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list