Restarting scripts

[Brian Cole]

If everything dies by a Python exception...

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main(sys.argv)
    except:
        os.execlp("python", "python", sys.argv)

Pretty nasty peice of code, but it works well for restarting your script.

-Brian

On 1/16/06, Ron Griswold <RGriswold at rioting.com> wrote:
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> This may be a little OT, but it does involve python scripts. I've written a
> server that hosts my companies asset management system. Of course something
> like this cannot be down for very long without data being lost (of course I
> have taken measures to inform the user of the down time and ask them nicely
> to please try again later… but in the real world people will just bypass the
> system and save manually). So what I need is some facility to start the
> server, and if it goes down, automatically start it back up again.
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> If anyone has any ideas on how I might accomplish this, either with python
> code, or third party software, I'd love to hear about it.
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> Thanks,
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> Ron Griswold
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