A simple shell script to run a Python program at boot time on Raspberry Pi.

BootPython.sh

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/BootPython

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: Runs a Python script on startup
# Required-Start: BootPython start
# Required-Stop: BootPython stop
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Simple script to run python program at boot
# Description: Runs a python program at boot
### END INIT INFO

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo "Starting BootPython"
    sudo python /home/pi/Ed-Python-Code/photocell/photocell.py
    ;;
  stop)
    echo "Stopping BootPython"
    sudo killall Python
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/BootPython {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

Incredibly quick and dirty. It could just end up killing all of your python processes when you stop the service.

Yes. ;-) I suppose I could track the process ids and only halt those related to the project.