diff --git a/setup/tank_api_proxy/sgtk/__init__.py b/setup/tank_api_proxy/sgtk/__init__.py
index 0d32df077f..d1e008da8d 100644
--- a/setup/tank_api_proxy/sgtk/__init__.py
+++ b/setup/tank_api_proxy/sgtk/__init__.py
@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@
 pipeline_config = os.path.abspath(pipeline_config)
 os.environ["TANK_CURRENT_PC"] = pipeline_config
 
+# From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40119302
+try:
+    reload  # Python 2.7
+except NameError:
+    try:
+        from importlib import reload  # Python 3.4+
+    except ImportError:
+        from imp import reload  # Python 3.0 - 3.3
+
 # ok we got the parent location
 # prepend this to the python path and reload the module
 # this way we will load the 'real' tank!
diff --git a/setup/tank_api_proxy/tank/__init__.py b/setup/tank_api_proxy/tank/__init__.py
index 11dc2b6b06..5023e3e77b 100644
--- a/setup/tank_api_proxy/tank/__init__.py
+++ b/setup/tank_api_proxy/tank/__init__.py
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@
 pipeline_config = os.path.abspath(pipeline_config)
 os.environ["TANK_CURRENT_PC"] = pipeline_config
 
+# From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40119302
+try:
+    reload  # Python 2.7
+except NameError:
+    try:
+        from importlib import reload  # Python 3.4+
+    except ImportError:
+        from imp import reload  # Python 3.0 - 3.3
+
 # ok we got the parent location
 # prepend this to the python path and reload the module
 # this way we will load the 'real' tank!