"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Daniel Crespo wrote: > >>>>>>os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, "c:/windows/notepad.exe") > >>>1944 > >> > >>I don't get the correct PID. > >> > >>When I do os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, "c:/windows/notepad.exe") > >>I get 168 (for example), while in the tasklist appears notepad.exe with > >>the 2476 PID. > > > > not sure, but the return value looks like a PID, so maybe you're seeing the > > PID for the cmd.exe instance used to run the program. or something. > > I believe it's documented here > http://docs.python.org/lib/os-process.html that the return value is not > the PID but the "process handle". I believe this can be converted to > the PID with a convenient pywin32 call though at the moment I can't > recall which. Googling quickly suggests that > win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId(handle) will do the trick (the > second item returned is the PID), but I'm fairly sure there's a simpler > approach if you keep looking. I recall there being a Cookbook recipe > related to this too.... > > -Peter
Yep... http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/347462 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
