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user3201185
user3201185

Reputation: 61

Is it possible to import a module in python, then delete it, but still be able to use it within program?

Is it possible to do the following in Python?

Pseudo-code:

<code to extract contents from a password-protected .zip file (includes module)>
<path to module>
import module
reload(module)
<delete extracted contents, including the imported module>
<program code (within it, use reload(module) to use the module)>

The purpose of this is to basically make the module "invisible" to the user. I know that if the user really wants to get it, he can, but this is just more of a deterrent. I also know that this may not be desirable at all, but is it possible?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 133

Answers (1)

Steve Jessop
Steve Jessop

Reputation: 279385

It might work, if by "contents includes module" you mean a .py file, and if the first import module can create a module.pyc file (which normally it can, but for example a read-only filesystem would stop it). If you don't delete that .pyc file, then reload(module) can load from it.

If there's another module.py found later in the include path, then deleting the files from one place would result in reload loading it from another.

If you delete all files relating to module everywhere in the path then it can't be reloaded, because what reload means is, "go load this from the include path".

Upvotes: 3

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