On Mar 27, 2007, at 1:07 AM, 李现民 wrote: > thanks for your help, but that is not what I am looking for. My > question is: I need to determine whether another process is running > now ---in my problem, that is 'tomcat5.exe' ---that determines what > should I do next. Maybe this can help: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303339