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? >
Ah. Just realised: you're the chap who asked on the PyUK list. Didn't really give a detailed answer there, did I? Sorry. For *nix, have a look at Chris Miles' PSI. (Another Londoner like me). http://www.psychofx.com/psi/trac/wiki/ TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list