Hi everybody,
My application enables the developpment of new C++
modules that are dynamically loaded in this
application.
My problem is that (under Windows) I can't delete a
module that have been already imported. I must
exiting the application (which is not a good idea for
a developpment environnment).
i.e. I can't delete "module.pyd" if I made "import
module" in the python interpreter.
Is there some technics to "unload" modules under python ? or is there a
technic to force removing a file even it is used by another
application ?
Remark : This problem does not exist under Linux.
Thanks for your answers and ideas.
Olivier 4 2242
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:43:45 +0100, Olivier Ravard
<ol************@novagrid.com> declaimed the following in
comp.lang.python: Remark : This problem does not exist under Linux.
I think Linux just masks the situation. Windows won't let you
delete the file because the OS still has it open (linked) to the process
that did the import.
Linux deletes the directory entry, so other programs can't find
the file -- but the OS still has an unseen link to the actual file; the
actual file doesn't go away until the total link count falls to 0.
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Le lundi 28 février 2005 Ã* 17:08 +0000, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit : On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:43:45 +0100, Olivier Ravard <ol************@novagrid.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Remark : This problem does not exist under Linux. I think Linux just masks the situation. Windows won't let you delete the file because the OS still has it open (linked) to the process that did the import. Linux deletes the directory entry, so other programs can't find the file -- but the OS still has an unseen link to the actual file; the actual file doesn't go away until the total link count falls to 0.
So, what is the solution ?
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:29:58 +0100, Olivier Ravard
<ol************@novagrid.com> declaimed the following in
comp.lang.python: So, what is the solution ?
As the old joke concludes... "... stop doing that".
I don't think Windows has any means to delete a file that it
considers open. You might be able to /rename/ it to something else
(since the OS knows where the "open" file is, it doesn't care about the
name anymore), but the delete still has to be done after all users of
the file have closed it.
Linux sort of does the same thing, but it "renames" to "no
directory entry", /and/ automatically deletes when the file is
subsequently closed. {again, this is my understanding -- I'm not an
expert at file systems}
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wl*****@ix.netcom.com> writes: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:29:58 +0100, Olivier Ravard <ol************@novagrid.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
So, what is the solution ?
As the old joke concludes... "... stop doing that".
I don't think Windows has any means to delete a file that it considers open. You might be able to /rename/ it to something else (since the OS knows where the "open" file is, it doesn't care about the name anymore), but the delete still has to be done after all users of the file have closed it.
Even if you are able to remove/rename the file, it won't help you
anyway, because there's no way to reload an extension module in a sane
way. AFAIK.
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