> I need a script to keep running in the background after it's loaded > some data. It will make this data available to the main program in the > form of a dictionary, but I don't want to reload the calculated data > every time the user needs it via the main program. > > I won't be working with an UI, hope that can be made easily in Python > somehow.
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want but you might find these daemonize examples useful from the cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66012 Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list