As Ben already said .. either deploy to Unix systems or use subprocess.Popen and detach the process:
from subprocess import Popenfrom win32process import DETACHED_PROCESS Popen(["YOURPROCESS"],creationflags=DETACHED_PROCESS,shell=True) On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com writes: > > > It appears that python-deamon would be exactly what I need. Alas, > > appears not to run on Windows. If I am wrong about that, please tell > > me. > > You're correct that ‘python-daemon’ uses Unix facilities to create a > well-behaved Unix daemon process. > > Since MS Windows lacks those facilities, ‘python-daemon’ can't use them. > > > To what tools should I turn? > > If what you need – the support to create a Unix daemon process – is > available only on Unix by definition, it seems you'll need to deploy to > Unix. > > > I am not eager to produce a "service" on Windows unless it cannot be > > avoided. > > Agreed :-) > > -- > \ “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” —Mark | > `\ Twain, _Following the Equator_ | > _o__) | > Ben Finney > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- *Timo Furrer* https://github.com/timofurrer tuxt...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
