On 02/06/2016 09:04 AM, paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com writes: >> >>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> >>> wrote: >>>> Since MS Windows lacks those facilities, ‘python-daemon’ can't use >>>> them. >>> >>> As you might imagine, I am not always able to specify which OS is >>> deployed. That does not mean that I am not responsible for getting the >>> work done. Perhaps you will tell me that what I want is not a daemon. >> >> I'm telling you none of those. What I'm telling you is MS Windows does >> not support what is needed to make a Unix daemon. >> >> You may need to re-visit the requirements and negotiate something >> different — a different deployment platform, or something which MS >> Windows can do which is less than a proper Unix daemon. > > I fully understand that Windows is not a proper UNIX. It might be that > UNIX is not in each and every aspect a proper Windows. > > If it is possible, I would like to create one tool to do this rather > than multiple. Is there anything in Python that would help to > accomplish this goal?
The fairly standard python-win32 package certainly allows you to make a proper win32 service. It's not part of the standard library, but you could ship it with your package. http://ryrobes.com/python/running-python-scripts-as-a-windows-service/ It's just not practical to have one tool that does such an OS-dependent thing. But it's not that hard to have specific code for Windows. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
