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
From my experiences with Python windows services some things to lookout for:
- the working directory of the service is usually where the service control
programm resides; especially NOT your Python directory
- the path is usually the system path. It is not uncommon that Python resides
in
For reference, this is the kind of pattern I use when writing Windows
Services in Python:
This is incredibly useful. Thank you.
Matt Funke
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I'm relatively new to the world of Windows programming, but I have a Python
program I'd like to run every once in a while from a Windows service. I've
gotten the service itself to run as it's supposed to, but attempts to run the
program with a DOS command (using ProcessStartInfo) are
