Is there a cross-platform of determining what other processes (or in Windows
terms, other applications) are running?
Is it possible in a cross-platform way to ask some other application to shut
down, wait a while, and then test to see if it did shut?
Failing that are there separate Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix ways of doing
this?
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Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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Jeremy C B Nicoll wrote:
Is there a cross-platform of determining what other processes (or in Windows
terms, other applications) are running?
Is it possible in a cross-platform way to ask some other application to shut
down, wait a while, and then test to see if it did shut?
Failing that are there separate Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix ways of doing
this?
Sorry, thought I'd part-answered this a while back; doesn't seem
to have shown up. In short, I don't believe there's anything
truly x-platform. On Windows, one approach is WMI. Here's an
example: http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/...ning_processes
There are other techniques, such as querying the top-level
windows or using the performance objects from the pywin32
modules.
TJG
Jeremy C B Nicoll wrote:
Is there a cross-platform of determining what other processes (or in
Windows
terms, other applications) are running?
Is it possible in a cross-platform way to ask some other application
to shut
down, wait a while, and then test to see if it did shut?
Failing that are there separate Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix ways of doing
this?
Ah. Just realised: you're the chap who asked on the PyUK list.
Didn't really give a detailed answer there, did I? Sorry. For
*nix, have a look at Chris Miles' PSI. (Another Londoner like me). http://www.psychofx.com/psi/trac/wiki/
TJG
Tim Golden wrote:
Jeremy C B Nicoll wrote:
>Is there a cross-platform of determining what other processes (or in Windows
terms, other applications) are running?
Is it possible in a cross-platform way to ask some other application to shut
down, wait a while, and then test to see if it did shut?
Failing that are there separate Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix ways of doing
this?
Sorry, thought I'd part-answered this a while back; doesn't seem
to have shown up. In short, I don't believe there's anything
truly x-platform...
.... or I could eat my words and point you towards Christian Heimes
enumprocess package: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/enumprocess
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