You might be able to use win32service.CreateDesktop to give
the program a desktop to work with.
Roger
Randy Syring wrote:
>I have been tasked with integrating an command line program (.exe) with a
>python web application. The program is intended to be run by a normal user
>and therefore pops up a "helpful" GUI window that displays a "working on
>it" type message while the program gathers data from a remote location.
>The web application is written in python and uses isapi-wsgi to integrate
>into IIS.
>
> Long story short, I have a routine in my web application that calls the
> program using the subprocess module, waits for it to finish, and then
> imports the data it collected. We have successfully tested this routine
> with the user that the IIS application pool runs under. But, when I try
> to run said routine from the web application, the external program hangs.
>
> It seems likely to me that you can not run a GUI program under a
> non-interactive service like IIS. But, I am not 100% sure on this so I
> was hoping that this list might be able to shed some light on this topic.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give.
>
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