Guidance on writing a top-like console

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Mar 14 15:02:44 EDT 2009


In article <mailman.922.1235774125.11746.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Chase  <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>> I am interested in writing an application that functions like a Unix
>> or Linux top in the way it displays data.
>> It should be command-line based but dynamically refreshing.
>
>You might look at the sourcecode for "iotop"[1] which would make 
>a good example (it's a "top"-like program written in Python, used 
>for monitoring I/O transactions on a per-process basis)

For all my disagreements with Richard Stallman, this simple post
illustrates why his philosophy is in some degree essential.
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