[Tutor] capturing process's status with python

[Alan Gauld]

"Flaper87" <flaper87 at gmail.com> wrote

> i would like to know how can i capture the system process's status 
> with
> python, i need to know if they are sleeping, zombie or runing.

The simplest route on Unix may be just to run ps using
the subprocess.Popen object or os.popen. You can then
parse the ps output.

The OS topic of my tutor gives some examples of running ps
using popen and Popen...

HTH,


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