[sugar] Reloading Python code

[Andrew Clunis]

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On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:01:39PM -0600, Neal Norwitz wrote:
> There was further discussion today between Guido and Glyph (of
> Twisted).  Twisted has another impl of reload that's more complex.
> They also have tests and other possible use cases so we can learn from
> their work and improve Guido's impl.  The good thing about Guido's
> impl is that it's very fast compared to the Twisted version, although
> not necessarily as complete.  The Twisted version walks all objects
> where Guido's only patches the objects in the module being reloaded.

Just a quick introduction: I'm the author of Develop activity, OLPC's
Python "IDE".

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop

I think that the idea of program instances being mutable is pretty cool
stuff.

- From a practical perspective, though, I'm not sure how to implement
this usefully into Develop.

Would there be some sort of "merge into running activity" button over a
buffer, or would there have to be something more drastic, like a
smalltalk style environment of floating objects and their methods?
That might prove difficult to implement practically.

How would you guys envision implementing this in a graphical development
environment?

- --
Regards,
Andrew Clunis

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