Splitting out the output of ps using Python

Question

On Linux, the command ps aux outputs a list of processes with multiple columns for each stat. e.g.

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START          


        

Answer 1

Why don't you use PSI instead? PSI provides process information on Linux and other Unix variants.

import psi.process
for p in psi.process.ProcessTable().values(): …