[python-win32] How to get the active process list?

[Christian Wyglendowski]

You could use WMI.

>>> from win32com.client import GetObject
>>> WMI = GetObject('winmgmts:')

Here is how to get the process list:

>>> processes = WMI.InstancesOf('Win32_Process')
>>> len(processes)
41
>>> [process.Properties_('Name').Value for process in processes] # get
the process names
[u'System Idle Process', u'System', u'SMSS.EXE', u'CSRSS.EXE',
u'WINLOGON.EXE', u'SERVICES.EXE', u'LSASS.EXE', u'SVCHOST.EXE',
u'SVCHOST.EXE', u'SVCHOST.EXE', u'SVCHOST.EXE', u'SPOOLSV.EXE',
u'ati2evxx.exe', u'BAsfIpM.exe', u'defwatch.exe', u'inetinfo.exe',
u'mdm.exe', u'rtvscan.exe', u'SCARDSVR.EXE', u'WLTRYSVC.EXE',
u'BCMWLTRY.EXE', u'EXPLORER.EXE', u'Apoint.exe', u'carpserv.exe',
u'atiptaxx.exe', u'quickset.exe', u'DSentry.exe', u'Directcd.exe',
u'vptray.exe', u'ApntEx.exe', u'FaxCtrl.exe', u'digstream.exe',
u'CTFMON.EXE', u'wuauclt.exe', u'IEXPLORE.EXE', u'Pythonwin.exe',
u'MMC.EXE', u'OUTLOOK.EXE', u'LineMgr.exe', u'SAPISVR.EXE',
u'WMIPRVSE.EXE']

Here is how to get a single process and get its PID.

>>> p = WMI.ExecQuery('select * from Win32_Process where
Name="Pythonwin.exe"')
>>> [prop.Name for prop in p[0].Properties_] # let's look at all the
process property names
[u'Caption', u'CommandLine', u'CreationClassName', u'CreationDate',
u'CSCreationClassName', u'CSName', u'Description', u'ExecutablePath',
u'ExecutionState', u'Handle', u'HandleCount', u'InstallDate',
u'KernelModeTime', u'MaximumWorkingSetSize', u'MinimumWorkingSetSize',
u'Name', u'OSCreationClassName', u'OSName', u'OtherOperationCount',
u'OtherTransferCount', u'PageFaults', u'PageFileUsage',
u'ParentProcessId', u'PeakPageFileUsage', u'PeakVirtualSize',
u'PeakWorkingSetSize', u'Priority', u'PrivatePageCount', u'ProcessId',
u'QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage', u'QuotaPagedPoolUsage',
u'QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage', u'QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage',
u'ReadOperationCount', u'ReadTransferCount', u'SessionId', u'Status',
u'TerminationDate', u'ThreadCount', u'UserModeTime', u'VirtualSize',
u'WindowsVersion', u'WorkingSetSize', u'WriteOperationCount',
u'WriteTransferCount']
>>> p[0].Properties_('ProcessId').Value # get our ProcessId
928

Note that this is the syntax used after running makepy against WMI.  You
could also use the module at this site:
http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

Christian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: S.Holmgren [mailto:stefan_holmgren at msn.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:38 PM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] How to get the active process list?
> 
> 
> Is it possible to get the process list in windows...
> I want to search for an active process by name and return the pid!!
> 
> Thanx
> Holmis
> 
> 
> 
>