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

For jython, if Java 5 is used, then you can get the Java process id as following:

from java.lang.management import *
pid = ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getName()