🔒 importlib.reload() does not work

[quick rapids]

import config
import sys
import importlib

def menu():
    try:
        print(colors.BOLD + colors.CYAN + "Welcome to Houdini\n" + colors.RESET)
        while True:
            display_menu()
            choice = get_user_choice()
            importlib.reload(config)
            print(KERNEL_VERSION)
            if choice in menu_options:
                menu_options[choice]()
            else:
                print("Invalid choice. Please try again.")

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[quick rapids]

when I change config.py, and then do importlib.reload(config), it does not change the KERNEL_VERSION

KERNEL_VERSION = "5.18.5"

this is config.py

[tawdry dirge]

Where is KERNEL_VERSION defined?

In the second file

[quick rapids]

second file is just that

nothing else

it's a global variable

so line 1

[tawdry dirge]

If you're doing something like this:

KERNEL_VERSION = config.KERNEL_VERSION

Updating the module will not reassign the variable in this module.

[quick rapids]

what

[tawdry dirge]

You shouldn't be reloading the module anyway. Make a function that fetches the version, and call that when you need to know the version number.

[quick rapids]

but i want to able to change the KERNEL_VERSION value and using that without terminating my program

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