How do you create a daemon in Python?

Question

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Answer 1

I am afraid the daemon module mentioned by @Dustin didn't work for me. Instead I installed python-daemon and used the following code:

# filename myDaemon.py
import sys
import daemon
sys.path.append('/home/ubuntu/samplemodule') # till __init__.py
from samplemodule import moduleclass 

with daemon.DaemonContext():
    moduleclass.do_running() # I have do_running() function and whatever I was doing in __main__() in module.py I copied in it.

Running is easy

> python myDaemon.py

just for completeness here is samplemodule directory content

>ls samplemodule
__init__.py __init__.pyc moduleclass.py

The content of moduleclass.py can be

class moduleclass():
    ...

def do_running():
    m = moduleclass()
    # do whatever daemon is required to do.