The autoreload module is not an IPython extension.

[Pau Altur Pastor]

I am getting a The autoreload module is not an IPython extension. message when running

%load_ext autoreload

Trying to run %autoreload 2 after that results in UsageError: Line magic function `%autoreload` not found.

After seeing issue number 12115 I performed the check stated there:

import autoreload
autoreload??

and my output is

Type:        module
String form: <module 'autoreload' from 'path_to_workdir\\venv\\lib\\site-packages\\autoreload\\__init__.py'>
File:        [path_to_workdir\venv\lib\site-packages\autoreload\__init__.py
Docstring:   <no docstring>

which seems like it points to the autoreload module. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

Further context:

python: 3.8.3 from pyenv-win in venv virtual environment
ipython: 8.12.3
autoreload: 0.1.2

os: win-11

[M Bussonnier]

You have the autoreload package installed that conflict with the extension, you can try to use the full path the IPython autorelod extension:

In[1]: %load_ext IPython.extensions.autoreload