How to catch windows shutdown/reboot message

[Tim Golden]

On 02/08/2010 02:17, rechardchen wrote:
> I'm writing a python script which runs as a windowsxp service.
> The problem is how to catch the windows shutdown/reboot message and do
> some cleaning job when system is going down?
>
> The atexit module and signal module on windows dont seems to work. I
> guess the python win32api may be of help, but I am not familiar with it...
> Thank you

Have a look at the SENS stuff:

   http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/track-session-events.html

TJG