On 4/7/06, Mark Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anybody have an example of getting hold of the "start parameters" > > in a Python windows service? > > I was half expecting them to be passed to SvcDoRun but I can't see > > that they are. > > Not an example - but they are passed to your service's __init__ function. > Most of the examples don't show that - so you need: > > class MyService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework): > ... > def __init__(self, args): > win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args) > # use args - args[0] is the "service name" > > Also note that no one persists these service arguments - so entering them > into the service manager means they get passed as you start the service that > once - they will not be passed in the future as the serivce starts normally. > > For this reason it is common for your code to write the args to the registry > so you can see them next time. win32serviceutil.Set/GetServiceCustomOption > may help (but obviously you can persist them any way you choose) > > Mark > > Hello, thanks for the reply. Ok. That makes sense. The non persistance will explain why my testing with args to __init__ didn't show anything. Thanks Mark.
Cheers, Emlyn. P.S I mailed to this list a little while ago about some problems with the debugger and Python/ASP; I am still intending to revist the "hacks" I made to get it working, I'll drop you a mail detailing them when I get round to it. _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
