pydevd-reload 1.0

Installation

If you don’t have much time, just perform

$ pip install pydevd_reload

which will install the module(without tests) on your system.

Also, you can just copy & paste the pydevd_reload.py which require no third-party dependency.

Usage

Just import pydevd_reload and use pydevd_reload.xreload as the reload built-in function.

import pydevd_reload
pydevd_reload.xreload(module_instance)

pydevd_reload reload code objects in a module by default, and provide __xreload_old_new__ and __xreload_after_reload_update__ custom hooks which allow user to update data in a module:

Original module:

class B(object):
        CONSTANT = 1

        def foo(self):
                return self.CONSTANT

Updated module:

class B(object):

        CONSTANT = 2

        # Custom hooks can be added in a reload.
        def __xreload_old_new__(cls, name, old, new):
                if name == 'CONSTANT':
                        cls.CONSTANT = new
        __xreload_old_new__ = classmethod(__xreload_old_new__)

        def foo(self):
                return self.CONSTANT

Improvements

This standalone pydevd_reload library has following improvements than original pydevd_reload.py:

• Removed pydevd dependency.

• Removed limitation that functions with decorators cannot be handled. *

• Added support to update function closure. *

• Added code object name check to avoid update monkey patched code. *

• Refined reload hooks. (eg, __xreload_old_new__ and __xreload_after_reload_update__)

• Fixed __file__ attribute in namespace so they will be updated.

• Fixed compiled python file support.

• Fixed reload failed when python code compiled from different paths.

Testing

If you have the source code you can run the tests with

$ python pydevd_reload/tests/test_pydevd_reload.py

Repository

The project is hosted on GitHub. You can look at the source here:

https://github.com/fyrestone/pydevd_reload