We are developing a program in Python that has embedded Stata commands. The structure of the program is as follows:
<python commands>
stata.run("do dataprep.do")
<more python commands>
stata.run("stata command")
<python commands>
The program is run using the standard IPython "%run program.py" command and works fine the first time it executes. However, if you re-run the program it fails at the stata.run command with the "do dataprep.do" instruction to Stata. The reason is that the do-file is already loaded. I tried using stata.run("clear all") before loading the do-file but that doesn't help. I can stop the program failing by rewriting the command as stata.run("capture do dataprep.do") but that doesn't help much because while capture traps the error message the do-file is not executed.
Hence, what I need is a way of unloading all loaded do-files from pystata. So far the only way I have found of doing that is literally to reboot my machine (this is under Windows). Restarting IPython doesn't achieve this goal.
What am I missing? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?
<python commands>
stata.run("do dataprep.do")
<more python commands>
stata.run("stata command")
<python commands>
The program is run using the standard IPython "%run program.py" command and works fine the first time it executes. However, if you re-run the program it fails at the stata.run command with the "do dataprep.do" instruction to Stata. The reason is that the do-file is already loaded. I tried using stata.run("clear all") before loading the do-file but that doesn't help. I can stop the program failing by rewriting the command as stata.run("capture do dataprep.do") but that doesn't help much because while capture traps the error message the do-file is not executed.
Hence, what I need is a way of unloading all loaded do-files from pystata. So far the only way I have found of doing that is literally to reboot my machine (this is under Windows). Restarting IPython doesn't achieve this goal.
What am I missing? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?
