How to restart tweepy script in case of error?

Question

I have a python script that continuously stores tweets related to tracked keywords to a file. However, the script tends to crash repeatedly due to an error appended below.

Answer 1

One option would be to try the module multiprocessing. I would argue for two reasons.

1. Ability to run the process for a set period of time without having to "kill" the whole script/process.
2. You can place it in a for loop, and have it just start over whenever it dies or you choose to kill it.

I have taken a different approach entirely, but that is partly because I am saving my tweets at regular(or supposedly regular) intervals. @ Eugeune Yan, I think the try except is a simple and elegant way to deal with the problem. Although, and hopefully someone will have a comment on this; you don't really know when or if it failed with that method, but idk if that really matters(and it would be easy to write a few lines to make that happen).

import tiipWriter #Twitter & Textfile writer I wrote with Tweepy.
from add import ThatGuy # utility to supply log file names that won't overwrite old ones.
import multiprocessing


if __name__ == '__main__':
        #number of time increments script needs to run        
        n = 60
        dir = "C:\\Temp\\stufffolder\\twiitlog"
        list = []
        print "preloading logs"
        ThatGuy(n,dir,list) #Finds any existing logs in the folder and one-ups it

        for a in list:
            print "Collecting Tweets....."
            # this is my twitter/textfile writer process
            p = multiprocessing.Process(target=tiipWriter.tiipWriter,args = (a,)) 
            p.start()
            p.join(1800) # num of seconds the process will run
            if p.is_alive():
                print " \n Saving Twitter Stream log   @  " + str(a)
                p.terminate()
                p.join()
            a = open(a,'r')
            a.close()
            if a.closed == True:
                print "File successfully closed"
            else: a.close()
            print "jamaica" #cuz why not