daemonize 2.1

Library to enable your code run as a daemon process on Unix-like systems.

# daemonize

## Description daemonize is a library for writing system daemons in Python. It has some bits from [daemonize.sourceforge.net](http://daemonize.sourceforge.net). It is distributed under MIT license.

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## Installation You can install it from Python Package Index (PyPI):

$ pip install daemonize

## Usage

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()

## File descriptors Daemonize object’s constructor understands the optional argument keep_fds which can contain a list of fds which should remain open. TODO: explain it more.