hide python window, con'td

[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

[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?

[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. Pick up a copy of Mark Hammond's Python
Programming on Win32 book for example services in Python. You could
then start/stop the service with service manager or with net start/
net stop commands.

-Larry Bates

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

[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
or unnecessarily looping. Pick up a copy of Mark Hammond's Python
Programming on Win32 book for example services in Python. You could
then start/stop the service with service manager or with net start/
net stop commands.

-Larry Bates

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

It is possible to get a background process in windows especially with
Python-2.4, but it's fairly hard.

try using

python runner.py dingo.py

where

###### runner.py
def bgScript(script,scriptArgs):
from _subprocess import CreateProcess
class STARTUPINFO:
dwFlags = 0
hStdInput = None
hStdOutput = None
hStdError = None
class pywintypes:
error = IOError
import sys
exe = sys.executable.replace('n.exe','nw.exe')
startupinfo = STARTUPINFO()
args = ''.join([' "%s"' % a for a in scriptArgs])
cmd = '"%s" "%s" %s' % (exe,script,args)
try:
hp, ht, pid, tid = CreateProcess(None, cmd,
# no special security
None, None,
0, #don't inherit standard handles
0x208,
None,
None,
startupinfo)
except pywintypes.error, e:
print str(e)

if __name__=='__main__':
import sys
bgScript(sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2:])
###### dingo.py
if __name__=='__main__':
import time
for i in xrange(15):
time.sleep(1)
######

dingo.py shoul be running in the background detached from the console.
Of course as others point out, the official way to do this stuff is to
use all the M$ paraphernalia and have stuff start up at boot time etc etc.
--
Robin Becker

[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 aren't really
all that hard to write after you first one.

Larry Bates

Robin Becker wrote:

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
or unnecessarily looping. Pick up a copy of Mark Hammond's Python
Programming on Win32 book for example services in Python. You could
then start/stop the service with service manager or with net start/
net stop commands.

-Larry Bates

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

It is possible to get a background process in windows especially with
Python-2.4, but it's fairly hard.

try using

python runner.py dingo.py

where

###### runner.py
def bgScript(script,scriptArgs):
from _subprocess import CreateProcess
class STARTUPINFO:
dwFlags = 0
hStdInput = None
hStdOutput = None
hStdError = None
class pywintypes:
error = IOError
import sys
exe = sys.executable.replace('n.exe','nw.exe')
startupinfo = STARTUPINFO()
args = ''.join([' "%s"' % a for a in scriptArgs])
cmd = '"%s" "%s" %s' % (exe,script,args)
try:
hp, ht, pid, tid = CreateProcess(None, cmd,
# no special security
None, None,
0, #don't inherit standard handles
0x208,
None,
None,
startupinfo)
except pywintypes.error, e:
print str(e)

if __name__=='__main__':
import sys
bgScript(sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2:])
###### dingo.py
if __name__=='__main__':
import time
for i in xrange(15):
time.sleep(1)
######

dingo.py shoul be running in the background detached from the console.
Of course as others point out, the official way to do this stuff is to
use all the M$ paraphernalia and have stuff start up at boot time etc etc.