I wondered whether there is any way to un-import a library, such, that it's occupied memory and the related shared libraries are released.
My usecase is following: success = False try: import lib1_version1 as lib1 import lib2_version1 as lib2 success = True except ImportError: pass if not success: try: import lib1_version2 as lib1 import lib2_version2 as lib2 success = True except importError: pass if not success: . . . Basically if I am not amble to import lib1_version1 AND lib2_version1, then I wanted to make sure, that lib1_version1 does not waste any memory At this moment this is more a thought excercise than a real issue, but I thought that perhaps somebody encountered this kind of issue and had an idea how to deal with such situations. One solution, that I could imagine is running the program a first time, detect all existing libraries and write out a config file being use the next time it is run, such, that immediately the right libs are imported. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list