setprocname

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Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-06-14, Tomasz Pajor <nikon at puffy.pl> wrote:
> 
>> Why there is no setprocname function in standard library, or am I 
>> missing something?
> 
> Dunno.  Before we start guessing, would you care to explain what you
> think "setprocname" ought to do?
> 
I think it's to set the name of the OS process.

On Windows, for example, all Python processes are called "python.exe" or
"pythonw.exe", so if you have several running it's not clear which is
which.

Have a look at:

     http://bugs.python.org/issue5672