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How to run python applications as NT service – comp.lang.python | Google Groups
This is the best explanation for how to create a Windows service from Python code using Python win32 extensions. It still sounds like too much work though. I’m just going to put my script in the windows startup folder unless anyone objects

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It turns out that following the example from Python’s SimpleXMLRPCServer documentation of serving from localhost only works for well, localhost:

from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer
# Create server
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
#snip ...(register functions here, see example)
server.register_instance(MyFuncs())
# Run the server's main loop
server.serve_forever()

To make your server available to other computers on your network you should do something like this:

import socket
from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer
# Create server
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer((socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()), 8000))
#snip ...(register functions here, see example)
server.register_instance(MyFuncs())
server.serve_forever()

Open question, will this work for serving to the internet at large, or do I need to do something differently? I’m actually not sure why localhost doesn’t work across the LAN. Does anyone know?

I found this answer by a google code search for SimpleXMLRPCServer.

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Enthusiast Answer My Searches reader, Jody writes in with this Firefox tip:

For some absurd reason (I believe PDF downloader – now incompatible with Firefox 2.0.0.6) all of my Firefox extensions stopped working. Upon opening the add-ons screen, every extension said “This add-on will be installed when Firefox is restarted.”

The simple solution is to close Firefox, and delete the following file. Everything should be fine after that. C:\Documents and Settings\[windows user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[PROFILE NAME]\extensions.cache

Thanks for the tip, Jody!