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I had a program that Scraped certain data from certain Web-Pages, and when the Web-Pages changed, acted accordingly.
How would one set up the program so it continues to run in the background?
I don't need any specifics
I'm just really confused on this concept and would appreciate whatever help anybody has to offer.
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Daemon processes in Python To execute the process in the background, we need to set the daemonic flag to true. The daemon process will continue to run as long as the main process is executing and it will terminate after finishing its execution or when the main program would be killed.
On Microsoft Windows NT systems, programs called Windows services perform the functions of daemons. They run as processes, usually do not interact with the monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and may be launched by the operating system at boot time.
In Microsoft Windows, software that runs as a non-interactive background process is called a service. A Windows service performs roughly the same role as a Linux or Unix daemon.
The threads which are always going to run in the background that provides supports to main or non-daemon threads, those background executing threads are considered as Daemon Threads. The Daemon Thread does not block the main thread from exiting and continues to run in the background.
start path-to-pythonw.exe your-code.py
pythonw means without console.
start means start on background.
if your python is installed system-wide, you can probably start your-code.pyw
.pyw is associated with pythonw.exe
remember you cannot use print (to stdout) in this case.
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