Jean-Paul Calderone <[email protected]> added the comment: It might be better to pick a better (but probably platform-specific) API for such a use-case. os.kill has a problem with false positives (on Linux it will tell you a process exists even when it doesn't). Looking in /proc/ or using a Windows API to enumerate all existing processes might be better. These have the advantage of giving you a bunch of PID information all at once which you can then check against, rather than repeatedly making syscalls.
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