Using autoreload in IPython

Posted on Fri 13 September 2019 in programming

Using the autoreload extension.

%load_ext autoreload
%aimport mymodule
%autoreload 1

The autoreload command understands three levels:

  • 0 -> extension is disabled
  • 1 -> reload modules that were marked with %aimport
  • 2 -> reload everything

The easiest usage of autoreload is to not aimport anything and set %autoreload 2, which causes the extension to reload all code before any Python code is run. This seems excessive but I have not necessarily noticed any performance issues from doing so. Regardless, I'm often only developing one library at a time, so marking that library only with %aimport and using level 1 seems more explicit.

Source: https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/extensions/autoreload.html

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