Executing a hidden/background program

[Mike Driscoll]

Jim,

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:02 PM,  <jim3371 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Using wxPython, I'm looking to build a GUI app for a daemon-based app,
> on Win32 platform, how would I go about executing the daemon app so it
> stays in the background when the Py app is running? It's critical that
> the child process exit when the Py app exits/crashes.
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You probably want to create a Windows service with Python. There are
various ways to accomplish this. While I haven't done it myself, I
found you some links:

http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/running-python-script-as-windows.html
http://essiene.blogspot.com/2005/04/python-windows-services.html
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html

Then the service can basically listen for input. You could probably do
something similar by creating a local server with cherrypy or some
such. I like the pubsub module for communication in wxPython.
Fortunately you can use it outside of the toolkit as well:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pubsub/1%20to%203

There's also a win32 mailing list for Python users. If you have
specific questions about creating a service, that's probably the best
place to ask. Here's a link to that as well:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

HTH

Mike