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I have successfully converted my python project to a service. When using the usual options of install and start/stop, everything works correctly. However, I wish to compile the project using py2exe, which seems to work correctly until you install the EXE as a service and try and run it.

You get the following error message:

  • Starting service CherryPyService
  • Error starting service: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

My compile python file (which links to the main project) is as follows:

  • from distutils.core import setup

  • import py2exe

  • setup(console=['webserver.py'])

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

William Troup
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You setup.py file should contain

setup(service=["webserver.py"])

as shown in the "old" py2exe docs

Ber
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You will find an example in the py2exe package, look in site-packages\py2exe\samples\advanced.

Toni Ruža
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