Running script in background.

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi,

I have a script.py that is converted to .exe using py2exe. From another
script I call script.exe and would like to be able to run this
script.exe in the background (as well as in console -- giving the user
some simple options). How can I make this happen?

thanks,

Harlin

[Larry Bates]

You have two choices:

1) You can use Windows Scheduler to run the script in the
background. I have lots of scripts that I do this with.

2) You can convert the script into a Windows Service, which
will run in the background continuously.

I know of no way to manually start something in the foreground
and have it execute in the background (unlike on Linux).

Larry Bates

Harlin Seritt wrote:

Hi,

I have a script.py that is converted to .exe using py2exe. From another
script I call script.exe and would like to be able to run this
script.exe in the background (as well as in console -- giving the user
some simple options). How can I make this happen?

thanks,

Harlin

[Nick Addison]

Harlin Seritt wrote:

Hi,

I have a script.py that is converted to .exe using py2exe. From another
script I call script.exe and would like to be able to run this
script.exe in the background (as well as in console -- giving the user
some simple options). How can I make this happen?

thanks,

Harlin

Have you considered running the exe as a scheduled job? Or you could
turn it into an NT service. I run quite a few py2exe exes as scheduled
jobs set up as run once on system start up.

hth

Nick.

[Peter Hansen]

Larry Bates wrote:

You have two choices:

1) You can use Windows Scheduler to run the script in the
background. I have lots of scripts that I do this with.

2) You can convert the script into a Windows Service, which
will run in the background continuously.

I know of no way to manually start something in the foreground
and have it execute in the background (unlike on Linux).

Depending on your definition of "background", the "START" command in
Windows is one way of doing precisely that. START /? for help...

-Peter