Restarting a script in Python

Question

I'm wondering how I can restart a script without just calling the function itself. You can see the example below. After "two" is printed I want the script to restart itself without just calling one().

import time
zero = 0

def one():
    global zero

    for i in range(50):
        time.sleep(0.5)
        zero += 1
        print(zero)
        if zero == 10:
            two()

def two():
    print("two")
    #Restart the script

one()

What do you mean by restart? What state are you expecting? What behavior? — Mad Physicist
– Mad Physicist, Commented Jul 14, 2019 at 15:45
Put the function call in a while loop. Such constructs are covered by tutorials — roganjosh
– roganjosh, Commented Jul 14, 2019 at 15:45
if you want it to "restart" after printing "two", why is it inside a loop? Maybe what you mean is if zero % 10 == 0:? — Tomerikoo
– Tomerikoo, Commented Jul 14, 2019 at 15:48
I need this example for an other script but it's too hard to explain with my English. I just want the code to stop after print("two") and restart everything again. I'm looking for something like os.execl(sys.executable, sys.executable, * sys.argv) — ScoobyDuh
– ScoobyDuh, Commented Jul 14, 2019 at 15:52

flakes · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-14 15:52:09Z

3

You want to do some condition forever, so the most practical way is to use a while loop with a condition that is always true.

while True:
    one()

You probably also want to return from function one after calling two

if zero == 10:
    two()
    return

answered Jul 14, 2019 at 15:52

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Axois · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-14 15:55:14Z

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You can try with a while loop,

import time
zero = 10
i = 0
while i <= zero:
        time.sleep(0.5)
        zero += 1
        print(zero)
        print("two")

answered Jul 14, 2019 at 15:55

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