getting properly one subprocess output

[Jon Clements]

On Nov 18, 11:25 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic... at sequans.com>
wrote:
> Hi python fellows,
>
> I'm currently inspecting my Linux process list, trying to parse it in
> order to get one particular process (and kill it).
> I ran into an annoying issue:
> The stdout display is somehow truncated (maybe a terminal length issue,
> I don't know), breaking my parsing.
>
> import subprocess
> commandLine = ['ps', '-eo "%p %U %P %y %t %C %c %a"']
> process = subprocess.Popen(commandLine, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
> processList, stderrdata = process.communicate()
>
> Here is a sample of what I get in processList.split('\n'):
>
>  ' "25487 1122      4344 ?         7-17:48:32  2.5 firefox-bin    
> /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-"',
>  ' "25492 1122      4892 pts/6          00:08 57.2 ipython        
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ip"',
>
> As you can see, to complete process command line is truncated.
> Any clue on how to get the full version ?
>
> JM
>
> (python 2.5)

What about "ps -eo pid,tty,cmd" ?

Sample:
12680 ?        geany /usr/share/gramps/ReportBase/
_CommandLineReport.py
12682 ?        gnome-pty-helper
12683 pts/0    /bin/bash
13038 ?        gnome-terminal
13039 ?        gnome-pty-helper
13040 pts/1    bash
13755 pts/1    ps -eo pid,tty,cmd

...etc...


hth,

Jon.