How to 'clear' the port when restarting django runserver

Question

Often, when restarting Django runserver, if I use the same port number, I get a \'port is already in use\' message. Subsequently, I need to increment the port number each t

Answer 1

Happened so often that I wrote an alias to kill the process with python in the name (careful if you have other such processes). Now I just run (no Ubuntu)

kill $(ps | grep "python" | awk "{print $1}")

You can even add python manage.py runserver ... to the same alias so you can restart with two keystrokes.