how to get information of a running prog in python

[Jimmy]

On May 13, 4:41 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Tue, 13 May 2008 01:22:52 -0300, Ivan Illarionov
> <ivan.illario... at gmail.com> escribió:
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> > On Mon, 12 May 2008 20:29:46 -0700, George Sakkis wrote:
> >>> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jimmy <mcknight0... at gmail.com>
> >>> > wrote:
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> >>> > >  can anyone tell me, in python, how to obtain some information of
> >>> > >  a running program?
> >>> > >  paticularly, if i am playing some music in audacious or other
> >>> > >  media player, how can i get the the name and some other info of
> >>> > >  current playing song? It seems that audicious doesn't output on
> >>> > >  run-time --
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> >> Your best bet is if the *specific* program you're interested in (e.g.
> >> audacious) exposes this information programmatically in some way. It's
> >> up to the developers of this application if and how they choose to do
> >> it. Even if they do it, there's no requirement that the same API will
> >> work for any other program of the same category, unless there is some
> >> popular industry standard that most applications implement.
>
> > George, have you read my post in this thread? What OP wants is actually
> > possible and it's quite easy. X server is the "superprogram" that knows
> > the names of all GUI window titles.
>
> That relies on the fact that audacious (or whatever player used) actually
> includes the song name as part of its window title. As G. Sakkis said,
> this depends on the specific program used. And what about "some other info
> of current playing song"?
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

since it's for lyrics displaying. you have to know time of where it is
playing,
 the control of user, etc.