title: How do I implement a simple cross platform Python daemon?
body: <p>I would like to have my Python program run in the background as a daemon, on either Windows or Unix. I see that the <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/" rel="noreferrer">python-daemon package</a> is for Unix only; is there an alternative for cross platform? If possible, I would like to keep the code as simple as I can.</p>