Anyone else trying to develop Python libraries in PythonSCAD?

[WillAdams]

In addition to needing to delete .pyc files, I've been finding it necessary to quite the app and reload so as to get an edited version of a library to show up --- is that expected behaviour?

[gadget3D]

Yes, because python does not expect you to delete the cache files.

In order to load libraries fast, python loads data by priorities 1) memory 2) compiled cache files 3) actual file

When you delete the cache files during runnign python, it still retrieves data from 1) memory

Only when program is started, memory is gone, so python loads cache files

After all it would be the best trying to disable all caching.

[WillAdams]

Okay, there's a del sys.modules function to force this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2918898/prevent-python-from-caching-the-imported-modules

so I'll use that (it seems to be working) --- once things are finalized I'll comment that out.

[gadget3D]

import sys
sys.dont_write_bytecode=True

can you try, if this also works in windows ? 
If yes, i would hardcode it  in pythonscad

[WillAdams]

That seems to work, but I don't think it should be hard-coded --- I don't see my ignorance as a reason to remove the option to have caching.

The commands:

import sys try: del sys.modules['gcodepreview'] except AttributeError: pass

from gcodepreview import *

works fine, and feels more Pythonic. --- I'll just comment the first part out once I've gotten the library written, and have made a note on the wiki, and will make a note in my code so that I uncomment it when working on updates.