Keep a script running in the background

[Daniel Fetchinson]

> I need a script to keep running in the background after it's loaded
> some data. It will make this data available to the main program in the
> form of a dictionary, but I don't want to reload the calculated data
> every time the user needs it via the main program.
>
> I won't be working with an UI, hope that can be made easily in Python
> somehow.

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want but you might find
these daemonize examples useful from the cookbook:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66012

Cheers,
Daniel
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