If you're on Linux you should * Have a look at the /proc/ filesystem, there's probably what you want there.
Here's a small script that print all the pid/cmd from the process ran with your user. #!/usr/local/bin/python import os import re import stat from os.path import join for pid in (pid for pid in os.listdir('/proc') if re.match('\d', pid)): cmdline_fn = join('/proc', pid, 'cmdline') cmdline = open(cmdline_fn).read() uid = os.stat(cmdline_fn)[stat.ST_UID] if os.getuid() == uid: print pid, cmdline For a more cross-platform solution there's a module that does that (I forgot it's name but with some googling you might find it) On Feb 9, 1:34 pm, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote: > > > On 2/9/2011 10:58 AM octopusgrabbus said... > > >> I have Python 2.6.6. I would like to get this output > > >> ps -ef | grep 'fglgo csm' > > >> into a list. What is the best way to do that? I've been reading the > >> documentation, and am lost. > > >> Thank you. > >> cmn > > > commands.getoutput > > > Emile > > Also, consider using "ps -eo pid,comm" (or similar) instead of ps -ef > - it should be easier to parse that way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list