How do you create a daemon in Python?

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Answer 1

Though you may prefer the pure Python solution provided by the python-daemon module, there is a daemon(3) function in libc -- at least, on BSD and Linux -- which will do the right thing.

Calling it from python is easy:

import ctypes

ctypes.CDLL(None).daemon(0, 0) # Read the man-page for the arguments' meanings

The only remaining thing to do is creation (and locking) of the PID-file. But that you can handle yourself...