On Mon, 12 May 2008 19:19:05 -0700, Jimmy wrote: > Well, i know it may be a little non-python thing, however, I can think > of no place better to post this question :) > > can anyone tell me, in python, how to obtain some information of a > running program? > paticularly, if i am playing some music in audacious or other media > player, how can i get the the name and some other info of current > playing song? It seems that audicious doesn't output on run-time
In case of Audatious running on X11 all you need is Python X library http://python-xlib.sourceforge.net/ And something like: from Xlib import display dpy = display.Display() root = dpy.screen().root NET_WM_NAME = dpy.intern_atom('_NET_WM_NAME') UTF8_STRING = dpy.intern_atom('UTF8_STRING') for win in root.query_tree().children: try: window_title = win.get_full_property(NET_WM_NAME, UTF8_STRING).value except AttributeError: continue if window_title.endswith('Audacious'): song = window_title.split(' - ')[:-1] if song: print song -- Ivan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
