How do I implement a simple cross platform Python daemon?

Question

I would like to have my Python program run in the background as a daemon, on either Windows or Unix. I see that the python-daemon package is for Unix only; is there an alternati

Answer 1

The reason it's unix only is that daemons are a Unix specific concept i.e a background process initiated by the os and usually running as a child of the root PID .
Windows has no direct equivalent of a unix daemon, the closest I can think of is a Windows Service. There's a program called pythonservice.exe for windows . Not sure if it's supported on all versions of python though