how to rerun a function after edit it?

[wang frank]

Hi,
 
I am looking for a way to rerun functions after I changed them. This is very critical during the development stage. Currently I have to quit python and restart the python to run the functions. I found the reload function. But it needs the module name. In my case, I import the module using from filename import *. I do not know how to reload it.
 
Using IDLE, it seems that everytime when I click F5, it reloads the function and execute them. I want to find out how to do it without IDLE.
 
For the python script, I use execfile('filename.py') to execute it. Is it possible by directly typing filename to run it? 
 
 
Thanks
 
Frank
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