Re: Question
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Re: How do you check if a program/process is running using python?
On Sunday 20 July 2008 12:08:49 am Lamonte Harris wrote:
> How do you check if a program or process is running when using python?
> What I want to do is have an infinite loop to check if a program is running
> or not and send data to my web server to check yes or no. Is this
> possible? If so how?
you can execute OS system call.
here i execute ps -ef and grep the required process name (or you can grep by
pid on that particular column using awk)
import os
os.system("ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep ")
in my system it gives result 0 if the process is running
>>> a = os.system("ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep python")
root 8749 5331 0 Jul19 pts/100:00:00 python
>>> a
0
else gives non 0 :
>>> a = os.system("ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep python123")
>>> a
256
you can check this inside while True:
I am sure there should be a far better solution that this in python.
-Venky
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