How do I change a process name or even a thread name in python!

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <969vkj$sak$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>, Donn Cave
<donn at u.washington.edu> writes:

| Quoth Kenneth Loafman <ken at lt.com>:
|| Try putting a '#! /usr/bin/python' as the first line, then running it as
|| '$ ./foo.py'.  Under Linux/UNIX, that picks up the right name and
|| arguments for ps aux.

| It does?  I don't think so!

| $ ./iam &
| [1] 28372
| $ ps wwaux | fgrep iam
| donn     28372  0.8  0.4  2768 1140 pts/1    S    16:31   0:00 /usr/local/bin/python ./iam

clearly, python needs setproctitle() in the posix module.

  -- erno