reloading module which has been imported to another module

Question

Let\'s face it, the whole business of reloading python code after changing it is a mess. I figured out awhile back that calling import at the in

Answer 1

Have a look into IPython. It has the autoreload extension that automatically reloads modules during the interpreter session before calling functions within. I cite the example from the landing page:

In [1]: %load_ext autoreload

In [2]: %autoreload 2

In [3]: from foo import some_function

In [4]: some_function()
Out[4]: 42

In [5]: # open foo.py in an editor and change some_function to return 43

In [6]: some_function()
Out[6]: 43