Getting access to the process table from python?

[Aahz]

In article <08fc5739-1dd9-402f-84ba-d9f72f48dfed at j4g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Roy Smith  <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>
>I need to get information about what processes are running on a box.
>Right now, I'm interested in Solaris and Linux, but eventually
>probably other systems too.  I need to know things like the pid,
>command line, CPU time, when the process started running, and owner.
>
>Has anybody written a module to do this?  I know I can run ps and
>parse the output, or troll /proc directly, but if somebody's already
>written all that, I'd rather not reinvent the wheel.

Google "python process table"?
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