[python-win32] fast test if (unknown) process is running ? Why not use Autoit ?

[Tim Golden]

On 06/08/2010 8:10 PM, Stef Mientki wrote:
>   thanks,
>
> On 06-08-2010 15:37, sharpblade wrote:
>> You are not using the WMI efficiently. You iterate over every process to test if only one is
>> there, when you can use WMI like so:
>>
>>>>> import wmi
>>>>> x = wmi.WMI()
>>>>> x.query("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'xchat.exe'")
>> [<_wmi_object: \\TOM-PC\root\cimv2:Win32_Process.Handle="7052">]
>>>>> def test():
>> t1 = time.time()
>> x.query("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'xchat.exe'")
>> print time.time()-t1
>>
>>>>> import time
>>>>> test()
>> 0.0829999446869
>>>>>
>>
> but that looks quit more complicated than psutils,
> besides that I believe that psutils is platform independant.

Well, just to phrase is slightly differently:

<code>
import wmi

c = wmi.WMI ()
for p in c.Win32_Process (Name="xchat.exe"):
   print p
   break
else:
   print "Not found"

</code>

TJG