So I was tasked at my college to embed Python into their framework - which provides all the necessary things to make a basic 2D game (sprites, window context, etc...).

So I successfully "embedded" Python 2.7 into their framework, and I can now call Python functions from C++ (using Visual Studio 2010, if that matters) and C++ Functions from Python. The python interpreter is setup properly, and I have decent Python debugging outputting to my console.

The last bit of the assignment says that they want me to figure out how to reload Python Scripts during application run-time, currently I can edit a script and see the changes if I close the app and open it up again (don't need to recompile).

How do I make C++/VS2010 detect the changes to my script during run time?

What does the C++ code for " Reloading " a python script look like? I thought I had it figured out, in my games update loop I just re-assigned the PyObject * that was storing the handle to the script the same values ( handle contains the filepath of the script, and the name of the function im trying to call from it), I don't have to recompile to see the changes - I don't see why just opening the script & saving it isn't enough.

How did you load it in the first place? If you imported it as a module then you can reload it with PyImport_ReloadModule().

What does the C++ code for " Reloading " a python script look like?

The python C api has a function just for that: PyImport_ReloadModule