Larry Bates wrote: > You have two choices: > > 1) You can use Windows Scheduler to run the script in the > background. I have lots of scripts that I do this with. > > 2) You can convert the script into a Windows Service, which > will run in the background continuously. > > I know of no way to manually start something in the foreground > and have it execute in the background (unlike on Linux).
Depending on your definition of "background", the "START" command in Windows is one way of doing precisely that. START /? for help... -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list