How to find processes from Python

[Gary Josack]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 25Jul2008 11:34, Johny <python at hope.cz> wrote:
> | Is there a way how to find out  running processes?E.g. how many
> | Appache's processes are running?
>
> See the popen function and use the "ps" system command.
>   
Use of the popen functions is generally discouraged since being 
deprecated for the subprocess module.

Look at the subprocess module which will allow you to run processes and 
capture the output. The docstrings have good examples for how to use it.