I gave this a shot but haven't had much luck with it. When I try os.execlp I get an error saying unknown file or directory. Whether this is in reference to Python or my script I don't know, however python is in my system's path variable and I'm running the script from the dir it is located in.
At someone else's suggestion I tried using a loader script with os.spawnv using the os.P_WAIT flag. Unfortunatly this exits right away (presumably never starting my server). I also tried subprocess.Popen and then calling child.wait(). This sent me into a loop of exceptions saying that the socket the server is opening is already in use (even on the first try). Does anyone know of a nice reliable app that already does this for you? Open source preferably. Ron Griswold Character TD R!OT Pictures [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Hansen Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 5:40 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Restarting scripts Brian Cole wrote: > 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. Noting that sys.exit() and possibly several other things can "raise SystemExit" and while it is a subclass of Exception (and gets caught by the above), it is usually considered a clean and intentional exit and changing the above to do this is probably best: try: main(sys.argv) except SystemExit: raise except: os.execlp(.... etc etc -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
