Mongod process restarter for cron

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import commands
import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

try:
        int(commands.getoutput('pidof mongod'))
        print ("[{0}] Mongo is fine, nothing to see here...").format(now)
except:
        os.system("/bin/bash /etc/init.d/mongod start")
        print("[{0}] Mongo died. Restarting...").format(now)