Listing children processes

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Mihai Badoiu <mbadoiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to compute the total CPU load of an external process and it's
> children.  (so I cannot use resource.getrusage)  For the load of the process
> I can just grab it from /proc/X/stat.  How do I get the CPU load of the
> children processes?  Is there an easy way to get a list of the children
> processes?

http://code.google.com/p/psutil/

Cheers,
Chris