Rebooting raspbian via Python

[raspmangobr]

Hello everyone,
I am desperately trying to find out a way to force my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian to restart when a certain condition is met (Python script), however I got no success so far...

I have tried the following statements by using popen:

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sudo reboot -i -p
sudo reboot -f
sudo shutdown -r -f now

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from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

def reboot():
    echo.echo("Rebooting...")
    db.write_alarm(get_alarm_status())
    upload.upload_log()
    reboot_statement = "sudo shutdown -r -f now"
    popen_args = reboot_statement.split(" ")
    Popen(popen_args, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    

I thought the problem could be calling it through the Python application itself, therefore I wrote a small C program to kill all running Python application and then reboot, but no success...

My Raspberry is enough powered (Red LED is always on) and all commands I described above work fine when called directly from the command window.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,

[DougieLawson]

I have tried the following statements by using popen:

Since there's nothing left to do if the shutdown command works there's no point using popen (which is deprecated in favour of subprocess anyway). You don't need to do anything with the output from a successful shutdown command.

So switch to

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import os
os.system('sudo shutdown -r now')

[Andyroo]

Thanks for that DougieLawson - just borrowed this old code snippet.

Search is such a wonderful coding tool

[dradg]

Just type the following two lines of code:

import os
os.system('sudo reboot')


And your pi would reboot