app engine python gcloud not updating instance

Question

I keep running this command:

gcloud app deploy service_backend.yaml --stop-previous-version --version test-0-5-8

over and over again (increasing the final version digit each time) and each time and go look at the log output from my code it show's me logging from an PRIOR/earlier version of the code but listed under the "test-0-5-8" version

either I'm losing my mind or something very strange is going on I've tried this 30 times over 3 days before posting this embarrassing issue because I assume I must be causing this somehow but I'm at a total loss as to how

Answer 1

I have had a similar problem before, and I think I solved it by deleting the .pyc files in my repo before deploying. Could you try that?