Question

I used to work with Django and the way it’s runserver restarts automatically whenever some python file is changed. That is really convenient and makes development easier for me.

Is there some way to tell web2py development server to track changes in python files and restart automatically?

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

This is much easier in web2py and happens automatically. web2py model, controller, and view files are executed in a prepared environment on every request, so any updates to those files are reflected immediately without restarting anything. For modules that you import, you can do the following (typically in a model file):

from gluon.custom_import import track_changes
track_changes(True)

Any module that has changed since the last import will be reloaded.