reload (update) a module file in the interpreter

Question

Let\'s say I have this python script script.py and I load it in the interpreter by typing

import script

and then I execute my

Answer 1

An alternative solution that has helped me greatly is to maintain a copy of sys.modules keys and pop the new modules after the import to force re-imports of deep imports:

>>> oldmods = set(sys.modules.keys())
>>> import script
>>> # Do stuff
>>> for mod in set(sys.modules.keys()).difference(oldmods): sys.modules.pop(mod)
>>> import script