Concise way of reloading with alias?

[davidleejy]

Hello community,

Does anyone know a concise way of achieving the following:

# Goal: Import abc123.ipynb and alias it as xxx.

from importnb import Notebook
from importlib import reload
with Notebook(lazy=True):
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        # This conditional block is meant to run when executing the current .py file directly.
        import abc123
        xxx = reload(abc123)
    else:
        import abc123 as xxx # This statement is meant to be run by processes importing current .pyfile.

xxx.foo()

Note that if lazy=False, abc123.ipynb is imported twice when executing the first conditional block (if __name__ == '__main__':); doubling the time needed to import it.

Help is appreciated :)

[davidleejy]

EDIT:

code could be:

from importnb import Notebook
from importlib import reload
with Notebook(lazy=True):
    import abc123 as xxx # Lazy load.
    xxx = reload(xxx) if __name__ == '__main__' else None # Eager loading when executing current .ipynb file directly.
    assert xxx.__file__.endswith('.ipynb') # Check in case shadowed by other imports

[davidleejy]

As of writing this closing comment, no one has yet advised/chimed in on this issue ticket.

It turns out that importlib & importnbdon't communicate with one another; if importlib were to already have imported abc.ipynb (via reload()), importnb's import will still proceed to import abc.ipynb. As such, abc.ipynb is executed twice, doubling the import time for an .ipynb file that could potentially be time-consuming to execute.

P.S. The comments in my code snippets above may not accurately reflect the behavior of importnb & importlib.