Question

I have a python script and I want to launch an independent daemon process. I want to call ym python script, launch this system tray dameon, do some python magic on a database file and quit, leaving the system tray daemon running.

I have tried os.system, subprocess.call, subprocess.Popen, os.execl, but it always keeps my script alive until I close the system tray daemon.

This sounds like it should be a simple solution, but I can’t get anything to work.

Answer 1

Solution for Windows: os.startfile()

Works as if you double clicked an executable and causes it to launch independently. A very handy one liner.

http://docs.python.org/library/os.html?highlight=startfile#os.startfile