Description Field in WinXP Services

[Roger Upole]

ChangeServiceConfig2 is the api functions that sets the description,
but it's not in the win32service module (yet).

         Roger

"rbt" <rbt at athop1.ath.vt.edu> wrote in message 
news:ctgij1$diq$1 at solaris.cc.vt.edu...
> How does one associate a "Description" with a Windows service written in 
> Python? I've just started experimenting with Python services. Here's my 
> code... copied straight from Mr. Hammond's "Python Programming on Win32":
>
>  import win32serviceutil
>  import win32service
>  import win32event
>
>  class test_py_service(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
>      _svc_name_ = "test_py_service"
>      ## Tried the following to no avail.
>      _svc_description_ = "Test written by Brad"
>      _svc_display_name_ = "Test Python Service"
>
>      def __init__(self, args):
>          win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args)
>          self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None)
>
>      def SvcStop(self):
>          self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
>          win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop)
>
>      def SvcDoRun(self):
>          win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.hWaitStop, 
> win32event.INFINITE)
>
>
>  if __name__ == '__main__':
>      win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(test_py_service)
> 




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