Multiple windows services on the same machine

[Mark Hammond]

On 6/06/2011 2:54 AM, Massi wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm writing a script which implement a windows service
> with the win32serviceutil module. The service works perfectly, but now
> I would need to install several instances of the same service on my
> machine for testing purpose.
> This is hard since the service name is hard-coded in the service class
> definition:
>
> class MyService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework) :
>      _svc_name_ = 'MyService'
>      _svc_display_name_ = 'Instance ofMyService'

It is only hard-coded in the HandleCommandLine function - you probably 
just want your own argv parsing and call InstallService directly.

HTH,

Mark