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Wout
Wout

Reputation: 1

Kill python script, and restart

Currently, I have this script which if it errors, it completely restarts. Which is perfect for what I need.

But there is one problem, I want the script to automatically restart, even when it did not crash. every 30 seconds.

This is what I have:

while True:
    try:
        do_main_logic()
    except:
        pass

I am expecting for it to just restart the entire script every 30 seconds and start from the begin. Even if it has not crashed or not.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 91

Answers (3)

José Juan
José Juan

Reputation: 106

I think you just have to add time.sleep(30)

import time
    
while True:
    time.sleep(30)
    try: 
        do_main_logic()
    except:
        pass

Upvotes: 0

zzkluck
zzkluck

Reputation: 29

I think what you need is threading.Timer. To use Timer, You can modify your do_main_logic() in the following way:

from threading import Timer

def do_main_logic():
    running = True
    def Timeout():
        nonlocal running
        running = False
    Timer(30, Timeout).start()
    while running: # and your loop conditions
        # your code here

You need to find a suitable place to constantly check the variable running.

Upvotes: 0

Will
Will

Reputation: 1845

If you want to restart each 30 second, maybe you can do a sort of:

import time

while True:
    try:
        do_main_logic()
    except:
        pass
    finally:
        time.sleep(30)

In this way at the end of the while, in both cases you hit the try or the except the script will sleep for 30 second.

Upvotes: 1

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