How to detect open windows applications

[Roy]

How do I know within my python script if a specific windows
application is currently running in Windows 2000. Specifically, I
would like to know of MSWORD is running. I have the win32 package
installed. Thank you for your help.

 

[Tim Golden]

How do I know within my python script if a specific windows
application is currently running in Windows 2000. Specifically, I
would like to know of MSWORD is running. I have the win32 package
installed. Thank you for your help.

I'm sure there are other ways, but since no-one else has
replied yet, you could use wmi:

<code>
import wmi

c = wmi.WMI ()
for p in c.Win32_Process (Name="thunderbird.exe"):
print p.ExecutablePath

</code>

The example uses my wmi-wrapper module (Google for Python
WMI) but you can do WMI with raw pywin32 -- all the module
does is to make life a bit easier.

TJG

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Michel_Claveau_-_abstraction_m=E9ta]

Hi !

Search the process.

@-salutations

 

[Roy]

That sounds like a good way...
How do I get a list of the process?

 

[gh]

That sounds like a good way...
How do I get a list of the process?

That's possible with the win32 extensions. For a quick hack I often prefer to
interface command-line utilities like the pulist.exe and kill.exe from the M$
Resource Kit.

-- Gerhard

 

[Roy]

Hi !

Search the process.

@-salutations

I found it! (I think)
Is the following code reasonable?
......
import win32pdh

processes = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None, None, "Process", -1)
processList = list(processes[1])

app = 'WINWORD'
try:
index = processList.index(app)
print "Application %s is running." % app
except ValueError:
print "Application %s is not running." % app
......
I don't care about index, which indicates where it is in the process list.

Thank you for your help!