Finding out what other tasks are running

[Tim Golden]

Jeremy C B Nicoll 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, and then test to see if it did shut?
 >
 > Failing that are there separate Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix ways of doing
 > this?
 >

Ah. Just realised: you're the chap who asked on the PyUK list.
Didn't really give a detailed answer there, did I? Sorry. For
*nix, have a look at Chris Miles' PSI. (Another Londoner like me).

http://www.psychofx.com/psi/trac/wiki/

TJG