"Howey," == Howey, David A <d.howey@imperial.ac.uk> writes:
Howey> Perhaps someone could share their experience using the Howey> magic command %run in Ipython? I'm just testing it out, Howey> and unfortunately it doesn't seem to do a full reload of Howey> all imported modules etc. IDLE's <F5>, on the other hand, Howey> does. This is annoying! Any tips? Dave One man's annoyance, another man's feature. When you are *using* really big modules that can take tens of seconds to import, it's nice not to have to pay the cost of the reload with each run. When you are *developing* modules that the script imports, it's a pain not to have your code reloaded. A good rule of thumb is to use run when you are using a module, not when you are developing it. You can achieve the desired behavior by doing In [7]: !python myscript.py Fernando, would it be useful to have a -python or -force or -reload option to run which produces the equivalent of the above. If only for didactic purposes, it would make it clearer in the docstring that a reload is not taking place. Perhaps the current run documentation is a bit misleading, where it reads: This is similar to running at a system prompt: $ python file args JDH