{"id":42002,"date":"2021-07-31T22:42:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T22:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42002"},"modified":"2021-07-31T22:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T22:42:14","slug":"python-importlib-reload-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/python-importlib-reload-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Python: importlib.reload, continued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Python: the tutor continues about reloading a module.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/python-batteries-included\/\">post from July 24, 2021<\/a>, I mention import importlib, then importlib.reload(moduleA) in Python. This might be done if you&#8217;ve changed moduleA.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn my experience, if you tried to import the module but the repl complained, it likely didn&#8217;t import. In such a case, fixing the module, then trying to reload it, seems not to work, likely since it didn&#8217;t import before. Instead, just using import seems to work, provided the module is fixed.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that, in my experience, importlib.reload(moduleA) only works if moduleA was successfully imported already.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.  \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Python: the tutor continues about reloading a module. In my post from July 24, 2021, I mention import importlib, then importlib.reload(moduleA) in Python. This might be done if you&#8217;ve changed moduleA. In my experience, if you tried to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/python-importlib-reload-continued\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Python: importlib.reload, continued<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1856],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42002"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42013,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42002\/revisions\/42013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}