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Autoreload other python files if they've been imported

See original GitHub issue

User scenario:

User has two files, foo.py and bar.py.

They are working in foo.py and they run this cell

from bar import my_func
my_func()

Then they go to bar.py and modify my_func().

They run a cell like so:

#%%
my_func()

It would be nice if my_func automatically picked up the changes from bar without having to redo the import.

The autoreload magic does this already. https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/extensions/autoreload.html

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:10
Comments:13 (8 by maintainers)

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10reactions

krystophnycommented, Nov 29, 2019

There is an option in the preferences to run startup commands for Interactive Python. Mine is set to "python.dataScience.runStartupCommands": "%load_ext autoreload\\n%autoreload 2"

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timvinkcommented, Sep 23, 2020

☝️ Syntax has been updated, it’s "python.dataScience.runStartupCommands": ["%load_ext autoreload","%autoreload 2"]

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