[python-win32] How can I check that a process is already running ?
Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
Tue Jun 3 09:56:40 EDT 2003
At 01:31 AM 6/3/2003 +0100, CPH wrote:
>I want to check to see if a process called "openoffice" is already
>running, how can I do this using python ?
At least on NT4 this works. I get various and unpredictable responses on
Win 2K.:
cmd = os.popen('query process')
x = cmd.readlines()
for y in x:
p = y.find('openoffice')
if p >= 0: # process running
If you want the one line version:
if ''.join(os.popen('query process').readlines()).find('openoffice') >= 0:
Bob Gailer
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