Cross-platform python library for reporting and manipulating system services?

Question

I just came across this piece of code:

os.system("/etc/init.d/apache2 " + op)

...where op is the action to perform on the service.

Obviously this is init -specific, perhaps even limited to openrc or some such. It's also going to break really easily.

Is there a python library to manage system services using the platform's own service manager ?

It could be as simple as an OS Rosetta, but I imagine it's a little more complex if you include non-POSIX OSs.

As opposed to the other question:

I don't want the service to be a child process of my python app. Services themselves should be independently managed as normal.
We should, if possible, use the Operating System's chosen process manager
On Linux, this could mean any of openrc, init, supervisord, etc.
I would like it also to run on Windows and OSX, if possible.

We don't necessarily need complex operations. Start, stop, restart, reload, and status is ok.

Answer 1

** Interim Answer - POSIX systems only **

Ansible appear to have written a class to do exactly that here , at least for POSIX-derived OSs.

From the code:

Supported init systems include BSD init, OpenRC, SysV, Solaris SMF, systemd, upstart.

It appears to be a class called "LinuxService" which has a number of functions:

get_service_status()
service_enable()
service_control()