Daemonizing a Python Script

2007-08-10 by Motoma, tagged as daemon daemonize hacking programming python

As my knowledge of Python continues to grow, I find myself using it more in my own systems. This is one of my more useful snippets of code; it allows a Python script to continue running as a daemon even if you log out or your session gets disconnected. A nice side effect of this is that the process is immediately run in the background, returning the user to a command prompt instantly.

I originally picked up the code to run a Python script as a daemon from the Python Cookbook on the ActiveState Programmer Network.

Hope this is as useful to you as it is to me,

Motoma