Monitor Process in Python?

Question

I think this is a pretty basic question, but here it is anyway.

I need to write a python script that checks to make sure a process, say notepad.exe, is running. If t

Answer 1

There are a couple of options,

1: the more crude but obvious would be to do some text processing against:

os.popen('tasklist').read()

2: A more involved option would be to use pywin32 and research the win32 APIs to figure out what processes are running.

3: WMI (I found this just now), and here is a vbscript example of how to query the machine for processes through WMI.