Creating a daemon process in Python

[garrickp at gmail.com]

On Feb 21, 3:34 pm, Benjamin Niemann <p... at odahoda.de> wrote:
> That's not a daemon process (which are used to execute 'background services'
> in UNIX environments).

I had not tested this by running the script directly, and in writing a
response, I found out that the entire interpreter closed when the main
thread exited (killing the daemonic thread in the process). This is
different behavior from running the script interactively, and thus my
confusion.

Thanks! ~Garrick