Here’s little gotcha I just ran into: if you import something using ‘from’, it will not be re-imported when you reload the enclosing module.

This means that if you have classes that contain some kind of class-wide state, and you reload the module it’s in, anywhere you have imported it with a from statement will end up having a different copy of the item.

This is especially bad if you’re using a test framework like nosetests, which reloads your modules for you.

Here’s some code to illustrate: