Cross-platform way to get PIDs by process name in python

Question

Several processes with the same name are running on host. What is the cross-platform way to get PIDs of those processes by name using python or jyth

Answer 1

First, Windows (in all it's incarnations) is a non-standard OS.

Linux (and most proprietary unixen) are POSIX-compliant standard operating systems.

The C libraries reflect this dichotomy. Python reflects the C libraries.

There is no "cross-platform" way to do this. You have to hack up something with ctypes for a particular release of Windows (XP or Vista)