"""

Modules that have been loaded as an argument to the command line cannot be reloaded using importlib.reload.

# following works fine:

	$ python -c "import reloader; reloader.reload_module('reloader')"

# if the module is the argument to python, it cannot be reloaded

  $ python reloader.py
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "reloader.py", line 31, in <module>
      reload_module("__main__")
    File "reloader.py", line 28, in reload_module
      importlib.reload(module)
    File "/usr/local/var/pyenv/versions/3.5.2/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 166, in reload
      _bootstrap._exec(spec, module)
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 607, in _exec
  AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'

"""
import sys
import importlib

def reload_module(name):
	module = sys.modules[name]
	importlib.reload(module)

if __name__ == "__main__":
	reload_module("__main__")