Refreshing Python filters?

[Julien ÉLIE]

Answering to myself:
>> In fact, I cannot reload it without *stopping* and *restarting* INN!
>> I reckon it is a bug...
>
> Maybe PYsetup() is too much and only a
>    PyImport_ImportModule((char *) INN_PATH_PYTHON_STARTUP_M);
> is enough but I do not know whether everything is properly initialized
> by Python afterwards...

Yep, only importing the module again, before reloading it, does the trick.
Now fixed (I hope).


--- python.c 2008-06-09 18:40:30 UTC (rev 7871)
+++ python.c 2008-06-09 18:41:22 UTC (rev 7872)
@@ -618,20 +618,39 @@
  Py_XDECREF(result);
     }

+    /* We need to reimport the module before reloading it because otherwise,
+     * it might not be taken into account by Python.
+     * See Python API documentation:
+     *     If a module is syntactically correct but its initialization fails,
+     *     the first import statement for it does not bind its name locally,
+     *     but does store a (partially initialized) module object in
+     *     sys.modules.  To reload the module, you must first import it again
+     *     (this will bind the name to the partially initialized module object)
+     *     before you can reload() it.
+     */
+    PYFilterModule = PyImport_ImportModule((char *) INN_PATH_PYTHON_STARTUP_M);
+    if (PYFilterModule == NULL) {
+        syslog(L_ERROR, "failed to reimport external python module");
+    }
+
     if ((newmodule = PyImport_ReloadModule(PYFilterModule)) == NULL) {
  syslog(L_ERROR, "cant reload python filter module");
  PYfilter(false);
  return 0;
     }
+
     Py_DECREF(PYFilterModule);
     PYFilterModule = newmodule;
+
     if (PYFilterObject == NULL) {
  syslog(L_ERROR, "python reload error, filter object not defined");
  PYfilter(false);
  return 0;
     }
+
     PYfilter(true);
     PYdefmethods();
+
     return 1;
 }


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Julien ÉLIE

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