I want to get the first 6 lines of ps output. For this I use: ======================================================================== from subprocess import check_output
ps_command = ('ps', '-eo', 'user,pid,pcpu,pmem,stat,start,time,cmd', '--sort') message = '\n'.join(check_output(ps_command + ('-%cpu',)).decode("utf-8").splitlines()[0:6]) ======================================================================== It works, but does not look very efficient. Is there a better way to do this? -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list