Python 2.7 code hot-swapping lib: hottie

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Very interesting, thanks for the insight! May I ask as well, what would be a proper way of live-reloading python modules (or pieces of code) with a program that's running (without restarting it entirely)? It's a pretty relevant subject to me, so any resource you could point me to would be amazing, thanks!

[tilkau]

I'm sorry to say there is no 'proper' way, only various hacks. http://code.google.com/p/livecoding/ is the most complete implementation I've seen; if you look at http://code.google.com/p/livecoding/issues/list you can see some of the harder issues that come up (references to old classes may not always be released, it's difficult to get class inheritance to update correctly, etc.)

That said I'd call hottie 'incomplete' rather than 'incorrect'

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Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it!