Re: [python-win32] better way to get current process's name

Kelie wrote: hello, is there an easier way to get the name of current process? i'm using wmi module from Tim Golden. here is what i have: def find_first_match(func, lst): Find 1st item in a list that yield True for a give function. match = None for i, elem in enumerate(lst):

Re: [python-win32] better way to get current process's name

is there an easier way to get the name of current process? It depends on what you mean by 'name'. Either 'sys.executable' or 'win32api.GetModuleFileName(0)' should give the same(-ish) result as Tim's script in most cases. Mark ___ Python-win32

[python-win32] DynamicProxies for VBA

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[python-win32] dbi.dbDate

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Re: [python-win32] better way to get current process's name

Thank you Tim and Mark. After trying what was suggested by you (both work), I realized it is not what I was looking for. What I wanted to do is: for every 0.1 second, check the active application or current application, or active window? (I don't know what is the correct term.) if it is AutoCAD

Re: [python-win32] better way to get current process's name

Kelie wrote: Thank you Tim and Mark. After trying what was suggested by you (both work), I realized it is not what I was looking for. What I wanted to do is: for every 0.1 second, check the active application or current application, or active window? (I don't know what is the correct term.)

Re: [python-win32] better way to get current process's name

Hi, On 2/22/07, Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kelie wrote: for every 0.1 second, check the active application or current application, or active window? (I don't know what is the correct term.) if it is AutoCAD (meaning user is using AutoCAD), turn on the CapsLock, if it is

Re: [python-win32] better way to get current process's name

Thanks again Tim G, Tim R and Mark M. Apparently the problem is a lot more involved than I had hoped/anticipated. Other than WHASUP and pywinauto, I'm also looking into AutoIt (http://www.autoitscript.com), seems I can put something together that's close to what I want without much difficulty.