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tableau / TabPy

Execute Python code on the fly and display results in Tableau visualizations:
https://tableau.github.io/TabPy/
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TabPy Running Indefinitely Question #410

Closed ascherer587 closed 4 years ago

ascherer587 commented 4 years ago

Is there any way to get TabPy to run indefinitely as a background process, such as daemon mode? I found some old information (circa 2017/18) when I did some research on in the internet, but I noticed the recommendations involved methods prior to the newest release. I am wanting to bring this service to an enterprise level with my company's analytics reporting, so any insight is appreciated.

0golovatyi commented 4 years ago

@ascherer587 TabPy runs until the application is either killed by a user or by a system (e.g. when shutting down or restarting).

You can either open multiple terminals and run TabPy with one of those or use something like screen command to run TabPy on a different virtual screen (kind of).

For autostarting TabPy when your system starts you may add tabpy command to your shell startup file.

With both of those suggestions, you may need to change logging settings for TabPy. Here's some information for how to do that - http://tabscifi.com/2020/02/how-to-configure-logging-in-tabpy/.

ascherer587 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for providing a detailed response so quickly. I will be checking out these methods today.