attach to process by pid?

[bobicanprogram]

On Mar 8, 7:49 pm, James Mills <prolo... at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Danny Shevitz <shev... at lanl.gov> wrote:
> > Is there any way to attach to an already running process by pid? I want to send
> > commands from python to an application that is already running. I don't want to
> > give the command name to subprocess.Popen.
>
> Unless I'm missing something here I don't see how you could
> achieve communication with another process unless that
> process has some kind of communication(s) interface; eg:
>  * some kind of listening socket
>  * some kind of I/O (pipe, stdin/stdout)
>
> cheers
> James
>
> --
> -- James Mills
> --
> -- "Problems are solved by method"


Have a look at the SIMPL toolkit.  http://www.icanprogram.com/06py/lesson1/lesson1.html

This should be able to do exactly what you want.

bob