How to restart kernel in VSCode to completely reload imports?

Question

When I change an imported python script when running cell by cell imports doesn't work until I restart the whole program VSCode. I tried to kill kernel and restart it, saved changes - nothing works, only restarting is need. But it isn't too quick and appropriate to restart it each time I change the code. Is there any way to apply changes in imported scripts? I am on linux lubuntu 20.04.

Answer 1

This works for me:

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

Execute those lines after your imports and any saved changes you make to the external file you are importing should get automatically reflected.