[issue6554] Do we have something like os.pid_exists()?

[Patricio Mariano Molina]

Patricio Mariano Molina <patriciomolina at gmail.com> added the comment:

Hey Jean-Paul, thanks for the quick reply!

You're right, but I wasn't thinking too much about optimization: I think
it would be useful to have that simple function, returning True or False.

I use to search for active PIDs *a lot* with Python

Do you think is a "YAGNI" case?

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