What is the de facto library for creating Python Daemons What is the de facto library for creating Python Daemons python python

What is the de facto library for creating Python Daemons


I went with Sander Marechal's A simple unix/linux daemon in Python, it is simple, and you work with it by creating a subclass and overriding the run() method, which feels a very natural way to do things (rather than the with context: approach of the python-daemon module.


Twisted comes with twistd.

http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/basics.html

You can wrap your application as a plugin for twistd.


For making a daemon program that will work correctly with the various runners in operating systems (e.g. init, systemd, launchd), the python-daemon library is the de facto way to write just the daemon part and let the operating system do the rest of the job correctly.