How do you reload a Django model module using the interactive interpreter via “manage.py shell”?

Question

I know how to reload a regular Python module within a regular Python interpreter session. This question documents how to do that pretty well:

How do I unload (reload

Answer 1

As far as I'm concerned, none of the above solutions worked on their own, also this thread didn't help much on its own, but after combining the approaches I managed to reload my models in shell_plus:

1. Make changes to the model (MyModel)
2. remove models.pyc

3. Clean Django model cache (like here):

    from django.db.models.loading import AppCache
    cache = AppCache()
    from django.utils.datastructures import SortedDict
    cache.app_store = SortedDict()
    cache.app_models = SortedDict()
    cache.app_errors = {}
    cache.handled = {}
    cache.loaded = False
   

4. Reload model like here

   reload(project.app.models)
   from project.app.models import MyModel