Question

I have a command line server for which I want to create a wrapper in python.
The idea is that the wrapper receives commands like:

my_wrapper start
my_wrapper stop
my_wrapper restart
my_wrapper status

And handles the server in background, unlinked to the terminal that launched it from the wrapper.

I was about to start thinking on how to do it and thought on the golden rule, DRY.

Do you know of any example code I should start reading before starting my first line?

Update:

I noticed I didn’t include that the server is a jar file, so I’ll have to run it using subprocess or something similar.

I’d prefer not to use modules that are not included in python’s standard lib.

Answer 1

You could use an implementation of PEP 3143 – Standard daemon process library. One existing is python-daemon.