teardown

Cauldron.api.teardown()[source] [edit on github]

Remove the Cauldron setup from the sys.modules cache, and prepare for another call to use().

This method can be used to reset the state of the Cauldron module and backend. This is most appropriate in a test environemnt.

Warning

It is not guaranteed to replace modules which are currently imported and active. In fact, it suffers from many of the same problems faced by the builtin reload(), and to a greater extent, makes very little effort to ensure that python objects which have already been created and belong to the Cauldron API are handled correctly. It is likely that if you call this method with instances of Keyword or Service still active in your application, those instances will become unusable.