turning a python script to windows service

[kedai]

Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3CA014BC.6090204 at skippinet.com.au>...

> 
> 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.

thanks for the pointer, and the book too.
i see that print does show up in the traceutil.  so  it works as a
service.

is there anything special that i need to do if i wanted to do more
stuff; for example, i tried copying files but nothing was copied.

snippet:
os.system('copy file filedst') #instead of print statement

a simple, doing something service example would be good :)
or pointers to docs i should read before asking again

thanks



> 
> Mark.