From 5b124e26e7393581e90d64628ad0690f22d8c862 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: beverly <lytle@arch.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:08:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] add unload_modules to compas_blender

---
 CHANGELOG.md                             |  1 +
 src/compas_blender/utilities/__init__.py |  1 +
 src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py     | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index eb13dd6db8b1..4dc7759ff341 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Added
 
 * Added `RobotModel.remove_link`, `RobotModel.remove_joint`, `RobotModel.to_urdf_string`, and `RobotModel.ensure_geometry`.
+* Added `compas_blender.unload_modules`.
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/src/compas_blender/utilities/__init__.py b/src/compas_blender/utilities/__init__.py
index e72bd3ab4ec6..df2b66dbfc30 100644
--- a/src/compas_blender/utilities/__init__.py
+++ b/src/compas_blender/utilities/__init__.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
 from .objects import *  # noqa: F401 F403
 from .collections import *  # noqa: F401 F403
 from .drawing import *  # noqa: F401 F403
+from .misc import *  # noqa: F401 F403
 
 
 __all__ = [name for name in dir() if not name.startswith('_')]
diff --git a/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py b/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..38566166a298
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import sys
+
+
+__all__ = [
+    'unload_modules',
+]
+
+
+def unload_modules(top_level_module_name):
+    """Unloads all modules named starting with the specified string.
+
+    This function eases the development workflow when editing a library that is
+    used from Blender.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    top_level_module_name : :obj:`str`
+        Name of the top-level module to unload.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    list
+        List of unloaded module names.
+    """
+    modules = list(filter(lambda m: m.startswith(top_level_module_name), sys.modules))
+
+    for module in modules:
+        sys.modules.pop(module)
+
+    return modules
\ No newline at end of file

From ee1ecb62fe82877ec61dab9caf59c2042ea46b91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: beverly <lytle@arch.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:18:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] whitespace

---
 src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py b/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py
index 38566166a298..99aef9fac16e 100644
--- a/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py
+++ b/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ def unload_modules(top_level_module_name):
     for module in modules:
         sys.modules.pop(module)
 
-    return modules
\ No newline at end of file
+    return modules

From 3d032ba70713fac92072c4c5e8c56c45a081bc0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: beverly <lytle@arch.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 19:05:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] remove unnecessary imports

---
 src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py b/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py
index 99aef9fac16e..7987119d71f1 100644
--- a/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py
+++ b/src/compas_blender/utilities/misc.py
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-from __future__ import division
-from __future__ import print_function
-
 import sys