top-like behavior

[Tim Chase]

> Is there a specific library used for displaying up to date consoles in
> the same way top behaves?

 From the last time a similar question was asked[1]:

You might look at the sourcecode for "iotop"[2] which would make 
a good example (it's a "top"-like program written in Python, used 
for monitoring I/O transactions on a per-process basis)


-tkc


[1]
http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg234993.html

[2]
http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/