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steve123 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:18 pm It would be handy for debugging if there was a button somewhere (or maybe just a "developer" menu item) that would allow you to force FreeCAD to reload a module(s).

chrisb wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:07 am I use sucessfully:

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import someModule
from importlib import reload
reload(someModule)

# femloader.py
import sys
import os.path
sys.path += ["/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/"] # why is this here for accessing ubuntu's python3-pyinotify?
import pyinotify
import fem
from importlib import reload

def reload_fem(event):
    reload(fem)
    print(f"reloaded fem from {event.pathname}")

def reloader():
    wm = pyinotify.WatchManager()
    femfile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__) , "fem.py")
    wm.add_watch(femfile, pyinotify.IN_MODIFY)
    notifier = pyinotify.ThreadedNotifier(wm, reload_fem)
    notifier.start()
    return notifier

notifier = reloader()

aavogt wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:13 pm ...
Based on the above, I put femloader.py and fem.py in ~/.local/share/FreeCAD/Macro/. After I save fem.py it gets reloaded automatically. I was hoping freecad would already do such a thing already since it will ask "This has been modified outside of the source editor. Do you want to reload it?" for .FCMacro files. So it can likely be done more portably (without pyinotify).