On Sep 2, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Michael Lewis <mjole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Michael, I see you have several Windows answers, but it doesn't look as > though you found quite what you were hoping for on OSX. My suggestion would > be to take the script and run it through py2app, which will turn it into a > stand-alone application which can then be added to your list of StartUp or > LogIn applications. If you never request input or produce output, it will > quite happily run in the background with no window and no menu (although by > default there will be an icon in the dock). At that point it is so much a > background application that the ONLY way you can quit it is via the Force > Quit dialog. If you generate status or housekeeping print messages, they > will show up in ~/Library/Logfiles. Py2app isn't particularly memory > efficient, even a minimal application tends to run close to 9-10 Mbytes, but > if it spends most of its time sleeping, it will use very little in the way of > system resources. > > Good luck, > Bill > > Thanks, Bill. That is definitely more of what I am looking for and actually > found that through some googling. What I am confused about now, is what's > really the difference between py2app and the python Build Applet? > -- > Michael J. Lewis I've never played with Build Applet, only py2app, so this may be partially or totally bogus, but py2app uses a fairly elaborate "setup" script that allows you to specify things like a custom icon (if you want one) as well as specific libraries. Build Applet, on the other hand, is a much simpler tool that takes a single source file, pulls in any "includes" it finds and builds a default. It might in fact be sufficient for your needs. If you've downloaded the python from python.org, you will definitely find both the Build Applet and PythonLauncher in a PythonXX folder in your Applications folder. Good luck, Bill
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