Building a Windows NT service with py2exe

[Adam Albrechtas]

Doh! Note to self: the Python Reference manual is your friend....

Thanks Mark!

Adam.


Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote in message news:<EOoga.7665$Ov1.54514 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> Adam Albrechtas wrote:
> > I have coded a Windows NT service in Python 2.2.  The service works
> > when running as a python script.  I can use py2exe to roll it into an
> > .exe without specifying that it is a service (which means that the
> > .exe ultimately does not work but at least the process completes). 
> > When I use py2exe while specifying a service build I receive the
> > following:
> 
> ...
> >   File "<string>", line 45
> >     win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(NTAdminService)
> >                                                     ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> My guess is that your script file simply does not have a \n at the end 
> of the file.  Python itself doesn't care about this, but exec does!