Jurigged lets you update your code while it runs. Using it is trivial:
jurigged your_script.py
Jurigged updates live code smartly: changing a function or method will fudge code pointers so that all existing instances are simultaneously modified to implement the new behavior. When modifying a module, only changed lines will be re-run.
You can also optionally install the develoop, a terminal-based live development environment:
As seen above, jurigged --loop <function_name> script.py
will "loop" on a particular function of the script. That funtion will be re-run every time the source code is modified, with changes hot-patched into the running process. The rest of the program is not re-run, so preprocessing is preserved and heavy modules do not have to be reloaded!
Jurigged requires Python version >= 3.8.
pip install jurigged
To also install the develoop feature, which lets you interactively develop functions:
pip install jurigged[develoop]
The simplest way to use jurigged is to add -m jurigged
to your script invocation, or to use jurigged
instead of python
. You can use -v
to get feedback about what files are watched and what happens when you change a file.
python -m jurigged -v script.py
OR
jurigged -v script.py
With no arguments given, it will start a live REPL:
python -m jurigged
OR
jurigged
Full help:
usage: jurigged [-h] [--interactive] [--watch PATH] [--debounce DEBOUNCE] [--poll POLL] [-m MODULE] [--dev] [--verbose] [--version]
[SCRIPT] ...
Run a Python script so that it is live-editable.
positional arguments:
SCRIPT Path to the script to run
... Script arguments
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--interactive, -i Run an interactive session after the program ends
--watch PATH, -w PATH
Wildcard path/directory for which files to watch
--debounce DEBOUNCE, -d DEBOUNCE
Interval to wait for to refresh a modified file, in seconds
--poll POLL Poll for changes using the given interval
-m MODULE Module or module:function to run
--dev Inject jurigged.loop.__ in builtins
--verbose, -v Show watched files and changes as they happen
--version Print version
Usage:
# Loop over a function
jurigged --loop function_name script.py
jurigged --loop module_name:function_name script.py
# Only stop on exceptions
jurigged --xloop function_name script.py
The "develoop" is an optional feature of Jurigged that provides a sort of live development environment for a function. If you run jurigged --loop <function_name> <script>
, the function of that name in the script will be part of the "develoop". When it is entered, it will be run, its output will be captured and displayed, and the program will wait for input. If the source code is changed, the function will run again.
The --xloop
or -x
flag works the same, but the loop is only done if the function raises an exception. If it does not raise an exception, it will run like normal. Both --loop
and --xloop
can be used multiple times, if you want to loop over multiple functions.
The default interface allows a few commands:
r
to manually re-run the loop. This can be done in the middle of a run.a
to abort the current run (e.g. if you get stuck in an infinite loop).c
to exit the loop and continue the program normally.q
to quit the program altogether.The default develoop interface does not play well with stdin. If you want to read from stdin or set a breakpoint()
, use the decorator @__.loop(interface="basic")
. The interface will be cruder, but stdin/pdb will work.
First, if there's a problem, use the verbose flag (jurigged -v
) to get more information. It will output a Watch <file>
statement for every file that it watches and Update/Add/Delete <function>
statements when you update, add or delete a function in the original file and then save it.
The file is not being watched.
By default, scripts are watched in the current working directory. Try jurigged -w <file>
to watch a specific file, or jurigged -w /
to watch all files.
The file is watched, but nothing happens when I change the function.
You can try using the --poll <INTERVAL>
flag to use polling instead of the OS's native mechanisms. If that doesn't work, try and see if it works with a different editor: it might have to do with the way the editor saves. For example, some editors such as vi save into a temporary swap file and moves it into place, which used to cause issues (this should be fixed starting with v0.3.5
).
Jurigged said it updated the function but it's still running the old code.
If you are editing the body of a for loop inside a function that's currently running, the changes will only be in effect the next time that function is called. A workaround is to extract the body of the for loop into its own helper function, which you can then edit. Alternatively, you can use reloading alongside Jurigged.
Similarly, updating a generator or async function will not change the behavior of generators or async functions that are already running.
I can update some functions but not others.
There may be issues updating some functions when they are decorated or stashed in some data structure that Jurigged does not understand. Jurigged does have to find them to update them, unfortunately.
You can call jurigged.watch()
to programmatically start watching for changes. This should also work within IPython or Jupyter as an alternative to the %autoreload
magic.
import jurigged
jurigged.watch()
By default all files in the current directory will be watched, but you can use jurigged.watch("script.py")
to only watch a single file, or jurigged.watch("/")
to watch all modules.
Functions can be programmatically changed using a Recoder. Make one with jurigged.make_recoder
. This can be used to implement hot patching or mocking. The changes can also be written back to the filesystem.
from jurigged import make_recoder
def f(x):
return x * x
assert f(2) == 4
# Change the behavior of the function, but not in the original file
recoder = make_recoder(f)
recoder.patch("def f(x): return x * x * x")
assert f(2) == 8
# Revert changes
recoder.revert()
assert f(2) == 4
# OR: write the patch to the original file itself
recoder.commit()
revert
will only revert up to the last commit
, or to the original contents if there was no commit.
A recoder also allows you to add imports, helper functions and the like to a patch, but you have to use recoder.patch_module(...)
in that case.
Jurigged works in a surprisingly large number of situations, but there are several cases where it won't work, or where problems may arise:
__init__
or rename attributes on existing instances, so you can easily end up with broken objects (new methods, but old data).__conform__
method (see below).In order to update a transform of a Python function, for example a transform that generates a new code object based on the original source code, you need to do something like this:
class Custom:
__slots__ = ("code",)
def __init__(self, transformed_fn, code):
self.code = code
self.transformed_fn = transformed_fn
def __conform__(self, new_code):
if new_code is None:
# Function is being deleted
...
if isinstance(new_code, types.FunctionType):
new_code = new_code.__code__
do_something(new_code)
self.code = new_code
...
transformed_fn.somefield = Custom(transformed_fn, orig_fn.__code__)
Basically, when the original code is changed, jurigged will use the gc
module to find objects that point to it, and if they have a __conform__
method it will be called with the new code so that the transformed function can be updated. The original code must be in a slot on that object (it is important that it is in __slots__
, otherwise the referrer is a dictionary). Multiple transformed functions may exist.
In a nutshell, jurigged works as follows:
gc.get_objects()
.
c. Add an audit hook that watches calls to exec
in order to inventory any new functions.gc.get_referrers()
to find all functions that use the old code
d. Replace their internal __code__
pointersThe two most comparable implementations of Jurigged's feature set that I could find (but it can be a bit difficult to find everything comparable) are %autoreload in IPython and limeade. Here are the key differences:
They both re-execute the entire module when its code is changed. Jurigged, by contrast, surgically extracts changed functions from the parse tree and only replaces these. It only executes new or changed statements in a module.
Which is better is somewhat situation-dependent: on one hand, re-executing the module will pick up more changes. On the other hand, it will reinitialize module variables and state, so certain things might break. Jurigged's approach is more conservative and will only pick up on modified functions, but it will not touch anything else, so I believe it is less likely to have unintended side effects. It also tells you what it is doing :)
They will re-execute decorators, whereas Jurigged will instead dig into them and update the functions it finds inside.
Again, there's no objectively superior approach. %autoreload
will properly re-execute changed decorators, but these decorators will return new objects, so if a module imports an already decorated function, it won't update to the new version. If you only modify the function's code and not the decorators, however, Jurigged will usually be able to change it inside the decorator, so all the old instances will use the new behavior.
They rely on synchronization points, whereas Jurigged can be run in its own thread.
This is a double-edged sword, because even though Jurigged can add live updates to existing scripts with zero lines of additional code, it is not thread safe at all (code could be executed in the middle of an update, which is possibly an inconsistent state).
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