python packages/tools to daemonize application

Question

I want to daemonize a python application. I've heard of forever and upstart for Node.js, are there similar tools I can use for python?

Answer 1

There are many great libraries for this, such as:

daemonize

Example:

from time import sleep
from daemonize import Daemonize

pid = "/tmp/test.pid"


def main():
    while True:
        sleep(5)

daemon = Daemonize(app="test_app", pid=pid, action=main)
daemon.start()

Update:

If you just want something like a supervisor, process control, init, etc I highly recommend you check out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/supervisor