On 7 Mar, 10:25, "Gregor Mosheh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to write a Win32 service. The following is straight from Python > Programming on Win32 and it doesn't work. Is that book out of date; is > there a new way to do services? I searched Google for hours trying to find > any other method, and have been beating on this one for 5 more hours. > > The present error is: > > C:\Tester>python tester.py debug > Debugging service Tester - press Ctrl+C to stop. > Error 0xC0000004 - Python could not import the service's module > > <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named service > > The code is: > > import win32serviceutil, win32service, win32event > > class Service(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework): > _svc_name_ = "EDMS-to-CG" > _svc_display_name_ = "EDMS-to-CG Syncer" > _svc_description_ = "Uploaded the EDMS database to Cartograph" > > def __init__(self, args): > win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args) > self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None) > > def SvcStop(self): > self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING) > win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop) > > def SvcDoRun(self): > pausetime = 60 * 1000 > while True: > stopsignal = win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.hWaitStop, > pausetime) > if stopsignal == win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0: break > self.runOneLoop() > > def runOneLoop(self): > import servicemanager > servicemanager.LogInfoMsg('Running') > > win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(Service)
Yeah. You've cleverly decided to simplify the "smallest possible python service" by removing the """ if __name__ == '__main__': """ bit from the script ;) Try adding it back it. It worked for me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list