python and vc numbers

[Lie Ryan]

On 11/30/2009 10:05 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:26:14AM -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> Also, in my quickie newbie experimentation with `screen`, each screen
>> "window" seems to get a unique tty#. Admittedly I am running OS X

Can you make do with the tempfile module? Or you'd need to identify from 
an external process which console is locked?