Systemd Issues - Failed to start MyApp daemon

Question

Hi all,
Sorry if I'm asking a stupid question, I'm new to Arch Linux, Pi, and Python. I have a Python script I'd like to start automatically after boot so I created a myapp.service file:
[Unit]
Description=MyApp daemon
Requires=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/root/bin/myapp/initmyapp.py
ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
After initmyapp.py runs it calls "myapp.py &" that's why I tried type=forking. I tested "systemctl start myapp" and it looks like it's working; I can see the process running. So, I did "systemctl enable myapp" which ran without errors and then I rebooted. After reboot, however, the process is not running and "systemctl status myapp" tells me this:
myapp.service - MyApp daemon
          Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/myapp.service; enabled)
          Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed, 1969-12-31 19:00:10 EST; 43 years and 0 months ago
         Process: 102 ExecStart=/root/bin/myapp/initmyapp.py (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/myapp.service
Dec 31 19:00:09 mybox initmyapp.py[102]: '_open', req)
Dec 31 19:00:09 mybox initmyapp.py[102]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
Dec 31 19:00:09 mybox initmyapp.py[102]: result = func(*args)
Dec 31 19:00:09 mybox initmyapp.py[102]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1207, in http_open
Dec 31 19:00:09 mybox initmyapp.py[102]: return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
Dec 31 19:00:09 mybox initmyapp.py[102]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1177, in do_open
Dec 31 19:00:10 mybox initmyapp.py[102]: raise URLError(err)
Dec 31 19:00:10 mybox initmyapp.py[102]: urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
Dec 31 19:00:10 mybox systemd[1]: Failed to start MyApp daemon.
Dec 31 19:00:10 mybox systemd[1]: Unit myapp.service entered failed state
Does this mean that networking is not ready yet? Instead of Requires=network.target I also tried Requires=multi-user.target but didn't work. I have no idea what I'm doing so any suggestion would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Thank you for the quick response. I removed the kill part and "stop" still works. I also removed all the network includes to test it out and the background call too and after hours of trial and error I was finally able to make it work. Now I just have to figure out how to tell when the network is up. That article covers it for C (I think) but not for Python. It also seems very technical.
Anyway, thanks again for your help.