Windows Services in Python - Any more it seems that virtually all the code I write on the windows platform ends up being a windows service. It's just the nature of the kind of work I do: the underappreciated guts that sit far beneath the software that users directly interact with. Obviously windows services are typically written in mainstream .Net languages like C# or VB these days but it's also easy if not easier to do in Python. Requirements A Python Interpreter - this one's pretty obvious. Can't run Python code without a Python interpreter. Python for Windows Extensions - this is a wonderful, easy to install project that exposes the innards of windows to Python. Administrative access - you must be logged in with administrative access in order to install your service. The Code Once...
