Error using VS-Code and reloading v1.1.2

[PFython]

I just read about reloading on Medium, installed the latest version with pip, but failed to get even the simple starting example to run using VS-Code as my IDE:

>>> from reloading import reloading
>>> for i in reloading(range(10)):
...     # this code will be reloaded before each iteration
...     print(i)
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\reloading\reloading.py", line 45, in reloading
    return _reloading_loop(fn_or_seq, every=every)       
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       
  File "C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\reloading\reloading.py", line 168, in _reloading_loop
    compiled_body, itervars, loop_id = get_loop_code(loop_frame_info, loop_id=loop_id)
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\reloading\reloading.py", line 138, in get_loop_code
    tree = parse_file_until_successful(fpath)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\reloading\reloading.py", line 88, in parse_file_until_successful
    source = load_file(path)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\reloading\reloading.py", line 82, in load_file
    with open(path, "r") as f:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '<stdin>'

[julvo]

Thanks for reporting this. It looks like vscode is piping the python source via stdin into the python interpreter. The current implementation of reloading can't see which file the source code came from when tracking source code changes.

To use reloading, please run the file directly, e.g. python my_module.py

[PFython]

Thanks for the explanation Julian! Is this a possible future feature request, or just too difficult?

It might be worth mentioning in the documentation at least?