To my surprise, I forgot to type the

%

but

reload_kedro

seems to behave just like

%reload_kedro

, maybe it's a IPython specific thing?

huh, surprising

Hm... that's too magical.

reload_kedro(".")

and

reload_kedro .

both run (The former one fail with error but is valid syntax, the latter run successfully as expected)

what about with quotes?

It seems that

reload_kedro()

is triggering the python function while

reload_kedro .

is triggering the magic instead.

Magic is literally in the name

yeah IPython is famous for making these kind of decisions to "simplify" scientists workflow... side effect is making everything more confusing

You can also try

ls

(which I think is expanded to

!ls

, or maybe

%ls

and could be confusing also)