You could use WMI.
>>> from win32com.client import GetObject
>>> WMI = GetObject('winmgmts:')
Here is how to get the process list:
>>> processes = WMI.InstancesOf('Win32_Process')
>>> len(processes)
41
>>> [process.Properties_('Name').Value for process in processes] # get
the process names
[u'System Idle Process', u'System', u'SMSS.EXE', u'CSRSS.EXE',
u'WINLOGON.EXE', u'SERVICES.EXE', u'LSASS.EXE', u'SVCHOST.EXE',
u'SVCHOST.EXE', u'SVCHOST.EXE', u'SVCHOST.EXE', u'SPOOLSV.EXE',
u'ati2evxx.exe', u'BAsfIpM.exe', u'defwatch.exe', u'inetinfo.exe',
u'mdm.exe', u'rtvscan.exe', u'SCARDSVR.EXE', u'WLTRYSVC.EXE',
u'BCMWLTRY.EXE', u'EXPLORER.EXE', u'Apoint.exe', u'carpserv.exe',
u'atiptaxx.exe', u'quickset.exe', u'DSentry.exe', u'Directcd.exe',
u'vptray.exe', u'ApntEx.exe', u'FaxCtrl.exe', u'digstream.exe',
u'CTFMON.EXE', u'wuauclt.exe', u'IEXPLORE.EXE', u'Pythonwin.exe',
u'MMC.EXE', u'OUTLOOK.EXE', u'LineMgr.exe', u'SAPISVR.EXE',
u'WMIPRVSE.EXE']
Here is how to get a single process and get its PID.
>>> p = WMI.ExecQuery('select * from Win32_Process where
Name="Pythonwin.exe"')
>>> [prop.Name for prop in p[0].Properties_] # let's look at all the
process property names
[u'Caption', u'CommandLine', u'CreationClassName', u'CreationDate',
u'CSCreationClassName', u'CSName', u'Description', u'ExecutablePath',
u'ExecutionState', u'Handle', u'HandleCount', u'InstallDate',
u'KernelModeTime', u'MaximumWorkingSetSize', u'MinimumWorkingSetSize',
u'Name', u'OSCreationClassName', u'OSName', u'OtherOperationCount',
u'OtherTransferCount', u'PageFaults', u'PageFileUsage',
u'ParentProcessId', u'PeakPageFileUsage', u'PeakVirtualSize',
u'PeakWorkingSetSize', u'Priority', u'PrivatePageCount', u'ProcessId',
u'QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage', u'QuotaPagedPoolUsage',
u'QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage', u'QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage',
u'ReadOperationCount', u'ReadTransferCount', u'SessionId', u'Status',
u'TerminationDate', u'ThreadCount', u'UserModeTime', u'VirtualSize',
u'WindowsVersion', u'WorkingSetSize', u'WriteOperationCount',
u'WriteTransferCount']
>>> p[0].Properties_('ProcessId').Value # get our ProcessId
928
Note that this is the syntax used after running makepy against WMI. You
could also use the module at this site:
http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html
Christian
