Python: Issue warning when re-loading the same module #178
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@charlesm93 recently ran into the issue where re-loading the same shared library is a no-op on some systems.
We warn against this in Julia and R (#45), but in Python the standard library was missing a way to list all already-loaded dlls, so it was left out.
After Charles' prompting, I wrote one: https://github.com/WardBrian/dllist
This small Python package essentially re-implements the same platform-specific logic that the Julia
dllistfunction that we use does. I finished it up this morning and put it on PyPI, so if we don't mind a small extra dependency we can add this warning now for Python users as well.