Getting a proccesses ID

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Friday 06 September 2002 09:48, Micah Mayo wrote:
>
> Ah, but os.getpid get's my pid, I need to get another programs, and in
> fact, several other program's pid. :)
>

hence the smiley.

If you wanted to be cool about it you could write a python module which parsed 
the various /proc interfaces of BSD, Linux, Solaris and created process 
trees/maps/dictionaries from this data.  Kind of like writing a generic db 
frontend to read the os's backend.