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My one objection to this is the `imp` module. As far as I can tell it is the only way (short of `sys.path` modification) to specifically load a module found at

My one objection to this is the `imp` module. As far as I can tell it is the only way (short of `sys.path` modification) to specifically load a module found at a specific path. For testing systems I use this quite extensively... Looks like I need to make some comments...

tgb 7y ago
I use imp.reload(my_module) all the time when %run-ing things from ipython that import my_module after editing it. What's the alternative for that use?
- carreau 7y ago
  In[1]: %load_ext autoreload In[2]: %autoreload 2 ?
- maxnoe 7y ago
  Using importlib.reload
saila 7y ago
You can do that with importlib too: from importlib.machinery import SourceFileLoader
- ChrisSD 7y ago
  That's been deprecated as well. The current docs say you should do this spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(module_name, file_path) module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) spec.loader.exec_module(module) https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importing-a-source-file-directly https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importing-a...
  - comex 7y ago
    Gross...
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