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Module: lib.deepreload

Provides a reload() function that acts recursively.

Python’s normal python:reload() function only reloads the module that it’s passed. The reload() function in this module also reloads everything imported from that module, which is useful when you’re changing files deep inside a package.

To use this as your default reload function, type this:

import builtins
from IPython.lib import deepreload
builtins.reload = deepreload.reload

A reference to the original python:reload() is stored in this module as original_reload, so you can restore it later.

This code is almost entirely based on knee.py, which is a Python re-implementation of hierarchical module import.

9 Functions

IPython.lib.deepreload.replace_import_hook(new_import)

IPython.lib.deepreload.get_parent(globals, level)

parent, name = get_parent(globals, level)

Return the package that an import is being performed in. If globals comes from the module foo.bar.bat (not itself a package), this returns the sys.modules entry for foo.bar. If globals is from a package’s __init__.py, the package’s entry in sys.modules is returned.

If globals doesn’t come from a package or a module in a package, or a corresponding entry is not found in sys.modules, None is returned.

IPython.lib.deepreload.load_next(mod, altmod, name, buf)

mod, name, buf = load_next(mod, altmod, name, buf)

altmod is either None or same as mod

IPython.lib.deepreload.import_submodule(mod, subname, fullname)

m = import_submodule(mod, subname, fullname)

IPython.lib.deepreload.add_submodule(mod, submod, fullname, subname)

mod.{subname} = submod

IPython.lib.deepreload.ensure_fromlist(mod, fromlist, buf, recursive)

Handle ‘from module import a, b, c’ imports.

IPython.lib.deepreload.deep_import_hook(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=None, level=-1)

Replacement for __import__()

IPython.lib.deepreload.deep_reload_hook(m)

Replacement for reload().

IPython.lib.deepreload.reload(module, exclude=('_abc', '_ast', '_codecs', '_collections', '_functools', '_imp', '_io', '_locale', '_operator', '_signal', '_sre', '_stat', '_string', '_symtable', '_thread', '_tokenize', '_tracemalloc', '_warnings', '_weakref', 'atexit', 'builtins', 'errno', 'faulthandler', 'gc', 'itertools', 'marshal', 'posix', 'pwd', 'sys', 'time', 'xxsubtype', 'sys', 'os.path', 'builtins', '__main__', 'numpy', 'numpy._globals'))

Recursively reload all modules used in the given module. Optionally takes a list of modules to exclude from reloading. The default exclude list contains modules listed in sys.builtin_module_names with additional sys, os.path, builtins and __main__, to prevent, e.g., resetting display, exception, and io hooks.