ipython/ipython — pull request #5044 by takluyver (2014-02-06 01:51:54+00:00)
Title: Store timestamps for modules to autoreload

Closes gh-4127

At present, autoreload compares the timestamps on .py and .pyc files. However, this can fail in a couple of ways (see gh-4127). With this change, it caches the mtime of the .py file when we loaded it.

Some extra complexity is needed to store the mtime as soon as possible - we scan sys.modules when autoreload is loaded, and register a post_execute hook to check for newly imported modules after each cell.