[Tutor] Python equivalent of "kill -0 PID"

[Joel Goldstick]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> In bash you can do this to see if a process is running:
>
> [scarolan at kurobox:~/bin]$ kill -0 24275
> [scarolan at kurobox:~/bin]$ echo $?
> 0
>
> Is there a python equivalent?  I tried using os.kill() but did not see
> any way to capture the output.
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I don't know the answer to your question, but I googled this article:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-python/

It talks about various sys admin things you can do with python.  It
might get you started

-- 
Joel Goldstick