Restart python-script from within itself

Restart python-script from within itself

Youre looking for os.exec*() 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)

Restart python-script from within itself

UPDATE – of the above answer with some example for future reference

I have runme.sh

#!/bin/bash
kill -9 server.py
python /home/sun/workspace/c/src/server.py &

And i have server.py where i need to restart the application itself, so i had:

os.system(runme.sh)

but that did not restart the application itself by following runme.sh, so when i used this way:

os.execl(runme.sh, )

Then i was able to restart itself

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