Facing Problem in running a newly written function in separate python file and calling it in a main file

Question

I have 2 Python files,

one is main.py (main code) and other is source.py (functions).

I import source.py into the main.py and call all the functions defined in source.py.

But when I write a new function at the run time, it will be shown in by the source.py's object but when called it shows an error.

# source.py
def fun1():
    print('India is the best !!!!!!!!!')

    
def fun2():
    print('Delhi is capital of India !!!!!!!!!')

# main.py

import source
source.fun1()
source.fun2()

This code runs properly.

When I add a new function to the source.py

def fun3():
   print('Modi is India's Prime minister!!!!!!!')

If I import source.py again and call fun3() from main.py, It show the following error :

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: module 'source' has no attribute 'fun3'

I want to know how to re-import the source.py so that it uses newly coded function without restarting the IDE I am using.

I am using Visual Studio 2017 for development in python

TIA

just to make sure, you not properly escaping the ' in fun3 is not whats causing the problem? — Eumel, Sep 22 '21 at 11:20
Does https://stackoverflow.com/a/1254379/6744133 answer your question? — Oli, Sep 22 '21 at 11:21
@Eumel This fooled me too, but had the module been reloaded, a syntax error would have occurred during the reload, rather than the attribute error shown. — joanis, Sep 22 '21 at 13:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 22 '21 at 13:28

1

Thanks all of you to for your reply, Problem solved after running following command:

import importlib
importlib.reload(source)

edited Sep 22 '21 at 13:28

joanis

answered Sep 22 '21 at 12:36

Piyush Sharma

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