[Python-ideas] install pip packages from Python prompt

[Stephan Houben]

What about something like the following to simulate a "restart", portably.

def restart():
    import sys
    import os
    import subprocess
    if os.getenv("PYTHON_EXIT_ON_RESTART") == "1":
        sys.exit(42)
    else:
        env = os.environ.copy()
        env["PYTHON_EXIT_ON_RESTART"] = "1"
        while True:
            sp = subprocess.run([sys.executable], env=env)
            if sp.returncode != 42:
                sys.exit(sp.returncode)

Stephan

2017-10-30 17:33 GMT+01:00 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:

> On 30 October 2017 at 16:22, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Also, on Windows, I believe that any emulation of execve either leaves
> >> the original process in memory, or has problems getting console
> >> inheritance right. It's been a long time since I worked at that level,
> >> and things may be better now, but getting a robust "restart this
> >> process" interface in Windows would need some care (that's one of the
> >> reasons the py launcher runs Python as a subprocess rather than doing
> >> any sort of exec equivalent).
> >
> > As long as the standard streams are passed along correctly, whatever the
> py
> > launcher does would presumably be adequate for a REPL restart as well,
> > assuming we decided to go down that path.
>
> The py launcher starts a subprocess for python.exe and waits on it. I
> wouldn't have thought that's going to work for installing mods in a
> REPL - imagine a long working session where I install 10 mods as I
> explore options for a particular problem (I don't know how likely that
> is in practice...) - there'd be a chain of 10+ Python processes, only
> the last of which is still useful. It's probably not a massive problem
> (I assume everything but the last process is paged out) but it's not
> exactly friendly.
>
> OTOH, if you lose the command history and the interpreter state after
> each install, you'll probably get fed up long before the number of
> processes is an issue...
>
> > It would also be reasonable to say that the regular REPL just issues a
> > warning that a restart might be needed, and it's only REPLs with a
> separate
> > client process that offer a way to restart the subprocess where code
> > actually executes.
>
> This feels awfully like the traditional Windows "your mouse has moved
> - please reboot to have your changes take effect" behaviour. I don't
> think we're going to impress many people emulating that :-(
>
> Paul
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