reload

PlasmaCalcs.tools.imports.reload(package='PlasmaCalcs', *, return_affected=False, maintain_defaults=True): reloads the provided package.

Similar to enable_reload(package); import package.

maintain_defaults: bool, default True

if True, update DEFAULTS in the reloaded package with any DEFAULTS set before reloading.

Does nothing if the original package does not have a ‘DEFAULTS’ attribute.

e.g. pc.reload() stores defaults0=pc.DEFAULTS, then reloads, then pc.DEFAULTS.update(defaults0).

returns the reloaded package.

if return_affected also return a list of all affected package names.

NOTE: this reloads package but doesn’t do it “in-place” (i.e. doesn’t change the package variable).

For example:

import PlasmaCalcs as pc

import mypackage as myp0

myp1 = pc.reload(myp0)

myp1 is myp0 –> False, because myp0 points to the pre-reload version of the package.

Thus, to use this method, you should instead assign the package to the result, for example:

import PlasmaCalcs as pc

pc = pc.reload()

# or, to reload a different package

import mypackage as myp

myp = pc.reload(myp)

package: str or module

the package to reload. if module, use package.__name__.