Prevent Python from caching the imported modules

Question

While developing a largeish project (split in several files and folders) in Python with IPython, I run into the trouble of cached imported modules.

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Answer 1

Quitting and restarting the interpreter is the best solution. Any sort of live reloading or no-caching strategy will not work seamlessly because objects from no-longer-existing modules can exist and because modules sometimes store state and because even if your use case really does allow hot reloading it's too complicated to think about to be worth it.