Re: [python-uk] What else is running on my machine?

2007-11-19 Thread Tim Golden
[as per other answer: ask on main python list] Jeremy Nicoll - pyuk 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,

Re: [python-uk] Where is a Python program running?

2007-11-19 Thread Tim Golden
Jeremy Nicoll - pyuk wrote: > Under Windows XP, I could have a program running under python.exe or > pythonw.exe or under IDLE. How can I test within a python program which of > these situations apply? (As a starter, you're better off asking this on the main Python list; this is Python-UK which

[python-uk] What else is running on my machine?

2007-11-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - pyuk
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? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own

[python-uk] Where is a Python program running?

2007-11-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - pyuk
Under Windows XP, I could have a program running under python.exe or pythonw.exe or under IDLE. How can I test within a python program which of these situations apply? At the moment, for example, I have a program which runs under python.exe because it might produce some output - certainly while