Get the status of a process

[Gilles Lenfant]

Hi,

I'm pretty brain dead reading the python docs about the processes.

I'm looking for some pythonig way to do a...

$ ps x | grep <some_pid>

.... in order to know if <some_pid> is running or not.

Thanks in advance for any hint.

 

[Michael Hudson]

Hi,

I'm pretty brain dead reading the python docs about the processes.

I'm looking for some pythonig way to do a...

$ ps x | grep <some_pid>

... in order to know if <some_pid> is running or not.

Thanks in advance for any hint.

os.kill(some_pid, 0)?

You might get EPERM if the process is running, but as a different
user.

Cheers,
mwh

 

[Gilles Lenfant]

os.kill(some_pid, 0)?

You might get EPERM if the process is running, but as a different
user.

Cheers,
mwh

Many thanks. This does the job (raises an OSError when process is dead)