How to reload module in Python

Asked May 24 '22 at 16:54

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I have a script which loads pre defined variables from myModule. I would like to call this this script many times in such a way that each time from myModule import * will be called. Here is my code:

# myModule.py
x = 12 # here I have one variable but I would like to make it works with maaany of them

# script
from myModule import *  # here I'm importing all variables (especially x)
another_variable = x * 2

at the runtime I will rewrite the variables in myModule and I will call this script again, but then the value of x will still be 12. How can I somehow remove all variables which were imported from myModule so when I call from myModule import * the new values will be imported? I would like to remove all of them automatically

edited May 24 '22 at 17:02

asked May 24 '22 at 16:54

Gregory

Python caches imports, so it doesn't matter if you re-import something - you'll get the same contents again. – Mark Ransom May 24 '22 at 17:04
So how can I remove it from cache? – Gregory May 24 '22 at 17:15
I'm sure there are questions here that go into that, one has an answer I wrote suggesting `reload`. – Mark Ransom May 24 '22 at 19:33
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/11618688/5987 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/32234323/5987. – Mark Ransom May 25 '22 at 01:43

How to reload module in Python

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