oh man so I think I finally figured out why the hot-reloading isn’t really working… (even in the no-errors case). It looks like

importlib.reload(self.module)

reloads /just/ the file specified by module, not the tree of imports. So if

repository.py

just imports a bunch of

define_pipeline

methods and returns a repo, none of it will really be reloaded. In my initial testing I was changing this main file, and tonight hot-reloading was just totally busted, but I was modifying the pipeline functions