PyCharm not recognizing new class method without reload

Question

I think this is a really silly / dumb question, but I am using PyCharm and constantly adding methods to a class or changing the body of the methods. When I test the class by importing the .py file and initiating the class object, it doesnt seem to recognize the changes to the class.

Is there some button I need to hit to make sure that the class code is changed.

The only thing that seems to work for me is to restart PyCharm.

Answer 1

When you import the class, it imports it as-is at the current time. If you make changes after that, you need to import it again. In this case, you should just be able to terminate the shell, and start it again.

This is not an error, or a bug.