Restart python-script from within itself
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family of commands.
To restart your current program with exact the same command line arguments as it was originally run, you could use the following:
os.execv(sys.argv[0], sys.argv)
I think this is a more elaborate answer, as sometimes you may end up with too many open file objects and descriptors, that can cause memory issues or concurrent connections to a network device.
import os
import sys
import psutil
import logging
def restart_program():
"""Restarts the current program, with file objects and descriptors
cleanup
"""
try:
p = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
for handler in p.get_open_files() + p.connections():
os.close(handler.fd)
except Exception, e:
logging.error(e)
python = sys.executable
os.execl(python, python, *sys.argv)