I would like to write a script in python which creates an elasticsearch server at localhost 9200. All of the examples that I find online regard connecting to an existing elasticsearch instance running at localhost 9200. My motivation is that I don't want to have to use the command line to run or shutoff the server.
Basically replace this line
bin/elasticsearch
with something in python.
UPDATE: I tried the following
subprocess.popen('elasticsearch-1.4.0/bin/elasticsearch')
However, I am getting the error "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'popen'"
My application.py file will run the elasticsearch service and then create another service which I can use to make calls to the elasticsearch server.
Could anyone provide a code snippet of how I would go about creating the elasticsearch instance programmatically? Are there any existing projects that do this? Thanks in advance for any help.
from os import popen
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen('elasticsearch-1.4.0/bin/elasticsearch')