[huyegn]

We used this technique once in one of our twisted servers to quickly fix in-memory data structures that had been loaded from old sources.

Recently, my team has been developing most of our newer network services using gevent. It's probably the closest thing to erlang that python has when it comes to programming asynchronous servers.

One of the things I always missed was this manhole feature, but while rummaging around the other day, I found this:

http://www.gevent.org/gevent.backdoor.html

Haven't tried it yet, but it looks like it will achieve the same task :)

[j2labs]

Mix gevent and zeromq and you're even closer to Erlang.