strange subprocess behavior when calling ps

[Roger Davis]

Hi James,

Thanks for the pointer to psutil. I actually did look around on
python.org before coding this up to see if there was such a package
available but there is not, at least not where I'm looking -- on the
other hand, I can't find my car keys most of the time. I would really
like to restrict my code dependencies to the standard Python
distribution (if there actually is such a thing, I'm new to the
language). Of course, that's assuming that I can actually get my code
to work in that fashion. If I can't get to the bottom of this issue
and figure out why my existing code does not work I will investigate
psutil further.

Thanks!

Roger