[Twisted-Python] WSGI Question

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On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Phil Christensen wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:58 AM, adamjamesdrew same wrote:
>> I deploy code. Then I modify the code on my file system. The code does not automatically change on the server. It does this on the django dev server. How can I make this happen?
> 
> This is a Django-specific feature that doesn't exist in Twisted.
> 
> It wouldn't be too hard to write, but it's the kind of feature that tends to be useful more to web developers than authors of other kinds of applications.
> 
> As it is, automatic code reloading is tricky to achieve in Python, since reload(modulename) only reloads modulename in the current scope, and must be reloaded everywhere that module is used.

There is/was a Twisted ticket about this and a quick sketch of how it might be done for Twisted by using the Django module itself by one of the Twisted devs.  

I gave it a brief shot, but couldn't get it working in the time I had to spend on it.  

Sure would be handy, though...

S