Restarting a self-updating python script

Question

I have written a script that will keep itself up to date by downloading the latest version from a website and overwriting the running script.

I am not sure what the

Answer 1

To additionally support script calls with Python's "-m" parameter the following can be used (based on the Alex's answer; Windows version):

os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, sys.executable, *([sys.executable] +
    (sys.argv if __package__ is None else ["-m", __loader__.name] + sys.argv[1:])))
sys.exit()