If your application works as expected before converting to a service, there should be no problem getting it working as a service.  At the most basic level, your service's main thread can do nothing more than interact with the service control manager, and your application code should be able to run in its own thread, quite independent of the service interactions.  The only minor complication will be to have the main service thread communicate service shutdown to your app code.
 
Can you be more specific about what problems you are having?
 
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Christopher A. Nethery
Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 9:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [python-win32] Multithreaded Service

I am new to this group, but I'm hoping someone could offer some advice as to a complicated issue I am having.

I have created a (multithreaded) Python application that performs asynchronous queries. Unfortunately, I'm having a very difficult time setting it up as a service.

It should run as follows:

1) A remote server starts the service
2) while the service is running, it performs its asynchronous lookups--something like:

while 1:

ASYNCH_QUERY()

time.sleep(30)
else:

sys.exit()

I have taken a look at the pipeTestServiceClient.py and pipeTestService.py examples from win32all build 209, but I couldn't figure out how to adapt it to my own code, since nothing needs to be echoed back to the "invoking" server. Does anyone have any ideas?


Thanking you in advance,

CAN

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