Question

I’ve got file named recommend.py. It has a dict data named critics.

When I try to reload it in the interpreter it gives the following error:

>>> from recommend import critics
>>> reload(recommend.py)
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
     NameError: name 'recommend' is not defined
>>>

I’m new to python. Please help me.

Answer 1

recommend.py is parsed as recommend . py which means that python looks for an object bound to the name recommend and then tries to get the py attribute from it. That doesn’t work because you don’t have an object named recommend in the current namespace and because even if you did have an object bound to that name, it probably wouldn’t have an attribute py.

Of course, you’ll need to give reload an actual module object. Something more like:

import recommend
reload(recommend)