Hello all,

Imagine this - I was extremely bored at work one day and I wrote an IRC bot that did a few things (i.e. auto-op'ing certain users in the channel, checking bittorrent rss feeds etc). What I want to do is to make changes to how the bot handles things - without having to restart it.

Easy! I thought - if I can just get the script to load the module upon demand (simple), and unload it when finished (a tad trickier), so that the module is forced to load next time, picking up any changes I made in the module since the last usage.

I've looked through a bunch of webpages and books to no avail. Looking in the wrong places? maybe, dunno ... if I knew I wouldn't be asking here :)

So - does anybody know how I could accomplish the above? Or could somebody at least point me in the direction of where I should be looking (wherefore pointing out what I missed finding already)?

Any help much appreciated.

In reply to Loading/Unloading Modules? by toobored

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