Autoreload capability in native REPL

[abielr]

It would be great if the recently introduced native Python REPL added similar functionality to the Jupyter autoreload extension. When working interactively in a session, I frequently want to change code in imported modules and then immediately see the effects of those changes without restarting my session.

I find the most useful modes for the auto reload plugin are either %autoreload 0, which requires me to manually run %autoreload whenever I want to reload imported code, or %autoreload 2, which always automatically picks up changes. Ideally one could just have %autoreload 2 turned on all the time, though in practice I find that it slows down code even when there are no changes to reload, which is why I also like to be able to manually reload.

[anthonykim1]

Thanks for the feature request!

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[SandyJackson]

This would be helpful.

The other option would be to just support the industry standard tool, iPython, properly. You've been asked to for years and it's pretty basic functionality I'd expect from an IDE.