Jeremy C B Nicoll wrote: > Is there a cross-platform of determining what other processes (or in Windows > terms, other applications) are running? > > Is it possible in a cross-platform way to ask some other application to shut > down, wait a while, and then test to see if it did shut? > > Failing that are there separate Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix ways of doing > this?
Sorry, thought I'd part-answered this a while back; doesn't seem to have shown up. In short, I don't believe there's anything truly x-platform. On Windows, one approach is WMI. Here's an example: http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html#running_processes There are other techniques, such as querying the top-level windows or using the performance objects from the pywin32 modules. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
