[Bf-funboard] Question on appending

[Stephen Swaney]

joeedh wrote:
> 
> First, a invaluable tip for developing Blender modules: don't import
> then.  Concatinate the lines from the Text object and run it using
> exec().  Blender will only import from a Text object once.  After that,
> it will NOT reload it, not even if you tell Blender to reload the file.
> You have to physically exit Blender, or maybe open another file, or
> something to clear it.

This is standard Python behavior.  Python will not reload a
module if its name can be found in sys.modules.  The solution
is to force a reload:

import some_module
reload( some_module )

The question appears in the Python Programming FAQ.

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Stephen Swaney			
sswaney at swbell.net