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airdas
airdas

Reputation: 932

Reloading modules with importlib in IPython

I'm confused by the behaviour of importlib in the interactive IPython shell. When I run:

import importlib.reload as ilrel

I get the error ImportError: No module named 'importlib.reload'. This is exactly how I import other modules, such as matplotlib.pyplot.

Currently I've been simply importing importlib alone, then using importlib.reload(<module name>). This isn't a major issue but why does the first method not work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2980

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599530

Because reload is not a module, it's a function within the importlib module. There is nothing specific about importlib; this is how imports work for all modules.

If you just want the function itself, you can do from importlib import reload.

Note also that this function is only available in Python 3.4+.

Upvotes: 6

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