How do you run a Python script as a service in Windows?

Question

I am sketching the architecture for a set of programs that share various interrelated objects stored in a database. I want one of the programs to act as a service which prov

Answer 1

The simplest way to achieve this is to use native command sc.exe:

sc create PythonApp binPath= "C:\Python34\Python.exe --C:\tmp\pythonscript.py"

References:

1. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc990289(v=ws.11).aspx
2. When creating a service with sc.exe how to pass in context parameters?