Services are pretty tricky - you might be better off arranging for the
Python script to write sys.stderr somewhere useful and seeing what the
traceback says - you'll almost certainly strike the same problem after
you get a pywin32 based one close to working.
Mark
On 22/06/2012 9:19 PM, Funke, Matt wrote:
Note you can write the service directly in Python using pywin32. If
you want to write the service using some other technology and just
spawn Python, then I'd suggest using just CreateProcess. But with
both CreateProcess and ProcessStartInfo, you need a way to
redirect output from the Python process so you can get diagnostics
from the output - just telling us it is "unsuccessful" doesn't help us
tell you what problem you have.
Yeah, that was exactly my problem; I had no way to diagnose what was going on,
and needed a springboard to tell me what I needed to know in order to figure
out what was happening (or not). I could verify that the script *worked*,
since I could run it from a DOS prompt without errors. But when I ran it using
CreateProcess (and ProcessStartInfo), I didn't see it execute (since it would
have created a file in its directory).
However, your answer that I can write it directly with pywin32 intrigues me,
especially since I'd rather develop in Python anyway. I'll go see what's
involved in doing that. Thanks for the pointer!
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