Python module – recursiveReload
Something that bothered me when I first started working with Python in Maya was reloading of modules. When working on tools that have multiple modules importing each other, it can be a pain to have to change something in one of the imported modules. There are a number of situations that arise where your modules just do not reload correctly. You might have imported an object from a module, or you might have imported a method with the same name as the module you imported it from, or you might have imported using an alias.
A situation came up last week at work that was somewhat related to this issue. Another one of the TDs was in the process of writing a daemon script, and we needed a way of ensuring that all of our modules get updated automatically without re-starting the daemon every single time we commit a change.
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