Reload single module in cherrypy?
Reloading modules is very, very hard to do in a sane way. It leads to the potential of stale objects in your code with impossible-to-interrogate state and subtle bugs. It's not something you want to do.
What real web applications tend to do is to have a server that stays alive in front of their application, such as Apache with mod_proxy, to serve as a reverse proxy. You start your new app server, change your reverse proxy's routing, and only then kill the old app server.
No downtime. No insane, undebuggable code.
Is it possible to use the python reload command (or similar) on a single module in a standalone cherrypy web app?  I have a CherryPy based web application that often is under continual usage. From time to time I'll make an "important" change that only affects one module. I would like to be able to reload just that module immediately, without affecting the rest of the web application. A full restart is, admittedly, fast, however there are still several seconds of downtime that I would prefer to avoid if possible.