Command for safe boot

[alexpul]

Is it possible to do a safe boot (or a soft reboot) from the command line? I know that you can accomplish these with Ctrl+F and Ctrl+D, respectively, but I would like to include a safe boot in my script so I need a command line option. machine.reset() is a command line reset but it does a hard reset and I don't want main.py and boot.py to run.

[robert-hh]

@alexpul No, but it would be easy to add something like machine.safe_boot(). It would more or less only consist of the name definition, and a function with a single statement, which just calls another function.

[robert-hh]

@alexpul But if it's only about not executing boot.py and main.py on boot, you can do similar with python scripts:

from machine import reset
def safe_boot.py()
# create a special main.py and reset
    f= open("no_main.py", "w")
    f.write('''import os\nos.remove("no_main.py")\n''') 
    f.close()
    reset()

and then a specific boot.py, which checks for that special main.py:

import machine
import os
try:
    f = open("no_main.py")
    f.close()
    machine.main("no_main.py")
except OSError:
    # do the previous boot.py stuff here

Or something similar in you regular boot.py and main.py, which just checks for the existence of a flag for bypassing.