Nick Coghlan added the comment:
To fully remove an imported submodule, you also need to purge it from the
sys.modules cache:
>>> import email.charset; email.charset
<module 'email.charset' from '/usr/lib64/python3.5/email/charset.py'>
>>> import sys
>>> del email.charset; del sys.modules["email.charset"]
>>> import email.charset; email.charset
<module 'email.charset' from '/usr/lib64/python3.5/email/charset.py'>
The reason we don't provide utilities in importlib to purge modules that way is
because not all modules support being forcibly reloaded like this, and unlike
imp.reload(), the errors happen at the point of importing it again later, not
at the point where you purge it.
However, if you can figure out precisely which "tk" submodules IDLE implicitly
imports, you can do one of three things for each one:
1. Change IDLE to avoid importing it in the subprocess where user code runs;
2. Test it supports reloading, and do "del tk.<submodule>; del
sys.modules['tk.<submodule>']" in the IDLE subprocess after you're finished
with it; or
3. Change tk.__init__ to implicitly import that submodule (such that code that
only imports "tk" will still be able to access it)
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