turning a python script to windows service

[Mark Hammond]

kedai wrote:
> hi
> i've a simple script that just prints time.time().  how can i turn it
> to a windows service?
> 
> do i need to do anythng special, apart from subclassing from
> win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework and defining SvcDoRun, SvcStop, etc.
> (the o'reilly python for win32 does help a bit, but i think i need
> more prodding :P)
> 
> i have turned the sript to run as a service with srvany, but it never
> prints anything, or do anything useful.  but when run in debug mode,
> it does print.

When run as a service, the print statements go nowhere useful - they run 
in the background.  Try looking up info in win32traceutil - this will 
allow you to see your print statement when running as a service.

Mark.