problem with reload(sys) (doing reload on the sys module)

[gen_tricomi]

Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
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IDLE 1.1.2['tkFileDialog', 'random', 'struct', 'tempfile', 'idlelib.cPickle',
'imp', 'collections', 'zipimport', 'string', 'SocketServer', 'repr',
'idlelib.string', 'idlelib.bdb', 'itertools', 'idlelib.SocketServer',
'ConfigParser', 'signal', 'idlelib.IOBinding', 'threading',
'tkMessageBox', 'idlelib.warnings', 'idlelib.struct',
'idlelib.cStringIO', 'cStringIO', 'locale', 'idlelib.threading',
'idlelib.TreeWidget', 'idlelib.rpc', 'atexit', 'idlelib.re',
'encodings', 'idlelib.RemoteDebugger', 'idlelib.tempfile',
'idlelib.codecs', '_tkinter', 'bdb', 're',
'idlelib.RemoteObjectBrowser', 'ntpath', 'idlelib.imp',
'idlelib.locale', 'idlelib.thread', 'math', 'idlelib.Debugger',
'Tkinter', 'idlelib.traceback', 'idlelib.marshal', 'UserDict', 'Queue',
'idlelib.StackViewer', 'codecs', 'idlelib.copy_reg', '_locale',
'socket', 'thread', 'sre', 'idlelib.time', 'traceback',
'idlelib.socket', 'idlelib.CallTipWindow', 'os', 'marshal',
'idlelib.tkFileDialog', '_sre', '__builtin__', 'select', 'idlelib.os',
'idlelib.ZoomHeight', 'idlelib.ConfigParser', 'errno', '_socket',
'binascii', 'sre_constants', 'types', 'idlelib.__builtin__',
'idlelib.tkMessageBox', 'cPickle', '_codecs', 'encodings.cp1252',
'idlelib.repr', 'idlelib.Queue', 'idlelib.__main__', 'idlelib.sys',
'encodings.aliases', 'exceptions', 'sre_parse', 'FixTk', 'copy_reg',
'sre_compile', '_random', 'site', 'SimpleDialog', '__main__',
'idlelib.types', 'tkCommonDialog', 'strop', 'encodings.codecs',
'encodings.exceptions', 'nt', 'idlelib.linecache', 'stat', '_ssl',
'warnings', 'encodings.types', 'sys', 'idlelib.Tkinter',
'idlelib.CallTips', 'idlelib.configHandler', 'idlelib.WindowList',
'idlelib.SimpleDialog', 'os.path', 'idlelib.ScrolledList',
'idlelib.ObjectBrowser', 'idlelib', 'Tkconstants', 'linecache', 'time',
'idlelib.select', 'idlelib.run']

This is not part of the above IDLE session
please mail me if you have any idea what this means.

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[nick]

Looks like a bug (probably in IDLE): when I start IDLE from the command
line, it pops up its interaction window and here is what it says about
stdout:

IDLE 1.1.2 <idlelib.rpc.RPCProxy instance at 0xb76a490c>

Then I try the reload and I get no output in the interaction
window:

After the reload, stdout has been changed to the terminal from which
IDLE got started, so I see the messages there:

<module 'sys' (built-in)>
<open file '<stdout>', mode 'w' at 0xb7b67068>

As you can see, stdout has been redefined (back to the way it would be if
you started Python from the command line, with no IDLE involved).

 

[gen_tricomi]

hi nick,

have you found any solutions to this problem.
maybe sys module does not need to be reloaded.
may Tim peters and the rest can help us on this