On 08/01/14 08:15, Mark Lawrence wrote:
I just saw where I could do os.system('python'), but in restarting the
interpreter I'd lose everything currently loaded: my real question
involves merely pushing the garbage collector into action, I think.
Don't do that!
You are not restarting the interpreter you are starting a brand new
interpreter *in addition* to the one that's already running. Now you
have even less resources to play with. It will make things worse not better.
os.system() is really for running shell commands that hopefully don't
take long, do a job that doesn't need any input and produces output that
you don't need to process(or a file that you can). Printing
a file, converting a file with lame of ffmpeg, say, that kind of thing.
It's actually deprecated now anyway and the subprocess module is preferred.
--
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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