PRAW can't seem to find praw.ini files created during program run-time

Describe the bug I have an algorithm that catches the Reddit instance not finding a praw.ini file and creates one, then goes back and re-creates the Reddit instance, however, even after the file is created, it can’t find anything. If I close the program and re-run after the file is created, it works fine.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a small write algorithm (or I can send mine) that creates a praw.ini file from user inputs
2. Initiate Reddit without a praw.ini file
3. Have the error caught and redirected to the file-creation algorithm
4. Have it than attempt to initiate again once the new file is created

Expected behavior I expected it to return to the beginning of my while loop, recognise that there is now a sufficient praw.ini file, and continue with the porgram.

Code/Logs I’m including the Reddit() instance because 1. it doesn’t have any private credentials visible due pulling them from a .ini file, and 2. it’s the problem.

instance = False
attempts = 0
while instance == False:
    if attempts == 3:
        print("Could not find required praw.ini attributes after 3 attempts. Exiting.")
        sys.exit(0)
    try:
        reddit = praw.Reddit("cdrcredentials", user_agent=config["os"]+":claimdoneremover:v"+version+" (by u/MurdoMaclachlan)")
        instance = True
    except (configparser.NoSectionError, praw.exceptions.MissingRequiredAttributeException):
        createIni(home)
        attempts += 1

Logs-wise, it isn’t throwing any errors or giving log messages, it’s just going back into the except and calling createIni() again. I can send createIni() if need be, but it’s only a simple file-creation function, and itself is working exactly as intended.

System Info

• OS: Linux (Slackware 14.2)
• Python: 3.7
• PRAW Version: 7.1

[bboe]

Actually, based on my own testing it looks like PRAW reads the praw.ini file once per program execution, so it won’t detect changes after the first read. I didn’t realize that was the behavior.

I think it’d be acceptable to have a way to replace the global config with a new one, or to reload an existing one.

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