Actual reloading is just hairy and you can end up with semi-broken instances among other things. Restarting the interpreter is just cleaner, and it's totally ac

Actual reloading is just hairy and you can end up with semi-broken instances among other things. Restarting the interpreter is just cleaner, and it's totally acceptable for a dev server. (Okay looks like Armin himself replied too, obviously take his words above mine.) I pointed to IPython's autoreload in another reply which is more powerful than importlib.reload.