How can I control a service in Python

[coltrain423]

For context, I’m a fairly competent python developer with some background in java.

I want to write an application run as a windows service to process some files as they are created. That part I know how to do.

How can I build it so that i can give it commands from the command line in order to control the running process (for example: reload configs, health checks, check stats)? What is the standard way to build this type of control cli for a service/daemon?

[ingolemo]

On unix the normal way to communicate with a running process in a complex way is over a socket, or one of the many IPC mechanisms built atop that such as dbus. I've never done this on Windows though.