How do you create a daemon in Python?

Question

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Answer 1

Probably not a direct answer to the question, but systemd can be used to run your application as a daemon. Here is an example:

[Unit]
Description=Python daemon
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=
Group=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /script.py

# Give the script some time to startup
TimeoutSec=300

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I prefer this method because a lot of the work is done for you, and then your daemon script behaves similarly to the rest of your system.

-Orby