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On 9/30/14 5:15 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
> Since the developers of Python decided to make Python 3 non backward
> compatible, I can't help but wonder why they don't think a command to
> restart would be a useful addition?
>

Starting a process over again in the same way is not something that is 
easy to do from within the process.  How are you running Python? Is it 
difficult to start it again?

-- 
Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com