Dealing with multiple python files in v2.49

Coding Python Support
1

Im having problems trying to work with multiple python files…

I have theses 2 file that are calling each other

test1.py



import test2
from test2 import *

print "test1"

hello_test2()

print

test2.py



def hello_test2():
	print "test2"

When I execute test1.py, the output on the console is as expected:

test1
test2

Now, if I modify test2.py and modify it to be ie the following:



def hello_test2():
	print "test2"
	print "test3"

Then I save test2.py, go back to test1.py and execute the script again, Im still having the same output on the console:

test1
test2

Where is the print of test3? Dunno but its not there, the only way that I found to make blender “realize” that the function hello_test2 have been modified and now include print “test3”, is to close blender and reload the file test1.py and test2.py…

Am I missing something?

How can I force blender to consider the changes that Im doing in test2.py without having to close it and reload my scripts?

2

the problem is in the python, it load the modules once in the first call, and rest in memory.

I search in the python api for a solution, but all my tries don’t work.

Finally my solution is rename the file that I call. and the import file in my script and it work well.

Example:
file :module1.py in the script: from module1 import *
made mofifications in the module1.py
rename module1.py to module2.py and modify main script to: from module2 import *

3

Ouchh! that hurt, can’t believe that is the only work around without having to restart blender :wink:

4

Yeah, that is the limitation of python (maybe it’s blender). If you import a library, that is the way I think if it, you can no longer make code changes to that library unless you restart blender. When I am developing script it is an endless series of open/edit/run/save/close repeat etc…
CTRL-S
CTRL-Q

Are your friends.

5

try this:

import module_name
reload(module_name)
6

Thank you, I did not know about reload.

I will certainly try that in my next script.

7

Thank you very much !!!
Finally I don’t do more inutile working!!!


import file
reload(file)
from file import *