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Re:Hot-swapping Python 3 code by pronoyc on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:53AM (#23515439)
How is this different from using Python Watchdog?

https://pythonhosted.org/watchdog/

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Re:Hot-swapping Python 3 code by erikschoster on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:11AM (#23515499)
Looks like it starts a thread that repeatedly hashes the content of the target script to poll for changes. Watchdog uses OS features like inotify and FSEvents and only uses polling and comparing hashes as a fallback.
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