reloading code and multiprocessing

[andrea crotti]

We need to be able to reload code on a live system. This live system
has a daemon process always running but it runs many subprocesses with
multiprocessing, and the subprocesses might have a short life...

Now I found a way to reload the code successfully, as you can see from
this testcase:


def func():
from . import a
print(a.ret())


class TestMultiProc(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
open(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'), 'w').write(old_a)

def tearDown(self):
remove(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'))

def test_reloading(self):
"""Starting a new process gives a different result
"""
p1 = Process(target=func)
p2 = Process(target=func)
p1.start()
res = p1.join()
open(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'), 'w').write(new_a)
remove(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.pyc'))

p2.start()
res = p2.join()


As long as I import the code in the function and make sure to remove the
"pyc" files everything seems to work..
Are there any possible problems which I'm not seeing in this approach or
it's safe?

Any other better ways otherwise?

 

[88888 Dihedral]

andrea crottiæ–¼ 2012å¹´7月19日星期四UTC+8下åˆ6時15分11秒寫é“：

We need to be able to reload code on a live system. This live system
has a daemon process always running but it runs many subprocesses with
multiprocessing, and the subprocesses might have a short life...

Now I found a way to reload the code successfully, as you can see from
this testcase:


def func():
from . import a
print(a.ret())


class TestMultiProc(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
open(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'), 'w').write(old_a)

def tearDown(self):
remove(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'))

def test_reloading(self):
"""Starting a new process gives a different result
"""
p1 = Process(target=func)
p2 = Process(target=func)
p1.start()
res = p1.join()
open(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'), 'w').write(new_a)
remove(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.pyc'))

p2.start()
res = p2.join()


As long as I import the code in the function and make sure to remove the
"pyc" files everything seems to work..
Are there any possible problems which I'm not seeing in this approachor
it's safe?

Any other better ways otherwise?

If a byte code interpreter is embedded in the executable, then the program
can obtain or reload code objects in the run time.

In C/C++, unless one can swap some DLL safely or spawn in another process with
new executables obtained from other places, or a script interpreter is embedded, otherwise it's not easy for an instance in C/C++ to get new methods dynamically.

or

 

[88888 Dihedral]

andrea crottiæ–¼ 2012å¹´7月19日星期四UTC+8下åˆ6時15分11秒寫é“：

We need to be able to reload code on a live system. This live system
has a daemon process always running but it runs many subprocesses with
multiprocessing, and the subprocesses might have a short life...

Now I found a way to reload the code successfully, as you can see from
this testcase:


def func():
from . import a
print(a.ret())


class TestMultiProc(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
open(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'), 'w').write(old_a)

def tearDown(self):
remove(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'))

def test_reloading(self):
"""Starting a new process gives a different result
"""
p1 = Process(target=func)
p2 = Process(target=func)
p1.start()
res = p1.join()
open(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.py'), 'w').write(new_a)
remove(path.join(cur_dir, 'a.pyc'))

p2.start()
res = p2.join()


As long as I import the code in the function and make sure to remove the
"pyc" files everything seems to work..
Are there any possible problems which I'm not seeing in this approachor
it's safe?

Any other better ways otherwise?

If a byte code interpreter is embedded in the executable, then the program
can obtain or reload code objects in the run time.

In C/C++, unless one can swap some DLL safely or spawn in another process with
new executables obtained from other places, or a script interpreter is embedded, otherwise it's not easy for an instance in C/C++ to get new methods dynamically.

or