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[Larry Bates]

It is just the nature of "things that run in the background all
day" to be things that should probably be daemons or services.
They almost always sleep, check, process, sleep, ... and as
windows services do that better than processes in loops that
sleep.  They are daunting at first, but services aren't really
all that hard to write after you first one.

Larry Bates

Robin Becker wrote:
> Larry Bates wrote:
>> Something that runs all day in the background is a perfect candidate
>> for being turned into a Service.  That and servicemanager has a good
>> way of managing the task so that it doesn't take up lots of excess
>> CPU cycles that a "normal" application would take while sleeping
>> or unnecessarily looping.  Pick up a copy of Mark Hammond's Python
>> Programming on Win32 book for example services in Python.  You could
>> then start/stop the service with service manager or with net start/
>> net stop commands.
>>
>> -Larry Bates
>>
>> Bell, Kevin wrote:
>>> Great!  And now that it's hiding w/ .pyw, how would I kill it if I want?
>>> Just log off, or is there a better way?
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
> It is possible to get a background process in windows especially with
> Python-2.4, but it's fairly hard.
> 
> try using
> 
> python runner.py dingo.py
> 
> where
> 
> ###### runner.py
> def bgScript(script,scriptArgs):
>     from _subprocess import CreateProcess
>     class STARTUPINFO:
>         dwFlags = 0
>         hStdInput = None
>         hStdOutput = None
>         hStdError = None
>     class pywintypes:
>         error = IOError
>     import sys
>     exe = sys.executable.replace('n.exe','nw.exe')
>     startupinfo = STARTUPINFO()
>     args = ''.join([' "%s"' % a for a in scriptArgs])
>     cmd = '"%s" "%s" %s' % (exe,script,args)
>     try:
>         hp, ht, pid, tid = CreateProcess(None, cmd,
>                                 # no special security
>                                 None, None,
>                                 0,  #don't inherit standard handles
>                                 0x208,
>                                 None,
>                                 None,
>                                 startupinfo)
>     except pywintypes.error, e:
>         print str(e)
> 
> if __name__=='__main__':
>     import sys
>     bgScript(sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2:])
> ###### dingo.py
> if __name__=='__main__':
>     import time
>     for i in xrange(15):
>         time.sleep(1)
> ######
> 
> dingo.py shoul be running in the background detached from the console.
> Of course as others point out, the official way to do this stuff is to
> use all the M$ paraphernalia and have stuff start up at boot time etc etc.