Re: hide python window, con'td

2006-05-26 Thread Larry Bates
It is just the nature of "things that run in the background all day" to be things that should probably be daemons or services. They almost always sleep, check, process, sleep, ... and as windows services do that better than processes in loops that sleep. They are daunting at first, but services ar

Re: hide python window, con'td

2006-05-26 Thread Robin Becker
Larry Bates wrote: > Something that runs all day in the background is a perfect candidate > for being turned into a Service. That and servicemanager has a good > way of managing the task so that it doesn't take up lots of excess > CPU cycles that a "normal" application would take while sleeping >

Re: hide python window, con'td

2006-05-26 Thread Larry Bates
Something that runs all day in the background is a perfect candidate for being turned into a Service. That and servicemanager has a good way of managing the task so that it doesn't take up lots of excess CPU cycles that a "normal" application would take while sleeping or unnecessarily looping. Pi

Re: hide python window, con'td

2006-05-26 Thread John Salerno
Bell, Kevin wrote: > Great! And now that it's hiding w/ .pyw, how would I kill it if I want? > Just log off, or is there a better way? > > Kevin > > Close it in the Task Manager? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

hide python window, con'td

2006-05-26 Thread Bell, Kevin
Great! And now that it's hiding w/ .pyw, how would I kill it if I want? Just log off, or is there a better way? Kevin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list