[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Application Running?

[Joseph Strout]

On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Jack Jansen wrote:

> > I need to be able to test if an application that I launched with
> > findertools.launch(file) is still running. Can anyone tell me how to do
> > that in Python?
> 
> If the app supports appleevents you could poll it with an appleevent, that's 
> the only way you can currently do this easily in Python. An alternative could 
> be to use calldll to generate an interface to the process manager.

When I want to do this in AppleScript, I just ask the Finder for a list of
processes, then scan the list for the application I'm interested in.
Couldn't you do the same thing from Python?

-- Joe

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|    Joseph J. Strout           Department of Neuroscience, UCSD   |
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