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How to reload python module imported using `from module import *`

Asked 2011-04-01T17:30:38.043
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I saw in this useful Q&A that one can use reload(whatever_module) or, in Python 3, imp.reload(whatever_module).

My question is, what if I had said from whatever_module import * to import? Then I have no whatever_module to refer to when I use reload(). Are you guys gonna yell at me for throwing a whole module into the global namespace? :)

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from module import *

takes all “exported” objects from module and binds them to module-level (or whatever-your-scope-was-level) names. You can reload the module as:

reload(sys.modules['module'])

but that won't do you any good: the whatever-your-scope-was-level names still point at the old objects.

answered 2011-06-10T17:46:05.783

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