Django Haystack update index script

update_index.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import logging
import subprocess

python_path = "/home/Environment/project/bin/python"
project_dir = "/home/production/project/"
log = "/var/log/update_index.log"


def update_index():
    logging.basicConfig(filename=log, level=logging.INFO,
                        format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s:%(message)s',
                        datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    logging.info('Updating indexes.')
    ui = subprocess.Popen([python_path, project_dir+'manage.py',
                           'update_index'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                          stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    ui.wait()
    if not ui.returncode:
        logging.info('Index successfully updated.')
    else:
        logging.error('Index update failed with return code %s'
                      % ui.returncode)
        logging.error('Error info:')
        logging.error('stdout: %s' % ui.communicate()[0])
        logging.error('stderr: %s' % ui.communicate()[1])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    update_index()