On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >>> Whole programming cultures, idioms and "right ways" differ between >>> platforms. What's the right way to write a service (daemon)? That's >>> probably completely different between Windows and Linux. Linux itself is >>> undergoing a biggish transformation there: an exemplary daemon of last >>> year will likely be deprecated within a few years. >> >> And that's where a library function can be really awesome. What's the >> right way to daemonize? "import daemonize; daemonize.daemonize()" >> seems good to me. Maybe there's platform-specific code in the >> *implementation* of that, but in your application, no. That's the job >> of a layer underneath you. > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/
Precisely. It's definitely within the language's purview; that that PEP is deferred is not due to it being a bad idea for the language/stdlib to deal with these differences. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
