How can I make a discordpy bot update/restart itself without stopping the Flask server

I want to make a command something like [prefix]restart so that my bot doesn't go offline with every little update I make.

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Might want to look at crosis

If you are in the repl, Press Ctrl-Enter. Fast restart and virtually 0 downtime. (1-2 seconds)

Make a command only you can use called restart. Then use await client/bot.logout... If you are hosting using repl it will automatically restart

@JoshuaGottfried this does log my bot out which is half the job but does not reactivate it

@SpaceFire Hmmmmmm. Could you send me the code via Discord? Nuggets#0001

@JoshuaGottfried done

i have an idea run a flask server in one tread: make repl run start.sh on start and have that start keep_alive.py which makes a flask server then runs it in a thred then start main.py and have the restart command use os.system('python main.py') and then on the newline exit()
so the restart command would look ike this:

import os

# -- rest of code--
#restart command
os.system('python main.py')
exit()

so then the thread is always running but the bot can restart itself

@Codemonkey51 That would cause recursion.

Not a fork bomb, but nested copy's.

Just make 2 different threads one handles the bot restart another one handles the bot itself.

I actually don't think this is possible.