[Tutor] Generalising system processes

[R. Alan Monroe]

> Is there a library in Python that generalises the display of processes
> in the system.
> I am looking for a consistent way of seeing processess, (a python
> equivalent of ps(unix) or tasklist (windows).

> I have googled but the only suggestion I have found was to install ps
> on Windows.

On Windows, you can probably use ctypes module to call
CreateToolhelp32Snapshot()

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/perfmon/base/createtoolhelp32snapshot.asp

I have not tried this in Python, though.

Alan