heh,

Reloading packages (and their submodules) recursivel...

pretty sure you can just pop all the references to package and sub-packages from sys.modules and re-import...
python python3 reload modules opensource itsnothard hacks terriblehacks fuckpython

...then to be sure (maybe), you can use gc.get_referrers on the base module (that you popped) to get all the dicts referencing it, and assign your newly imported package back into them.