Hello, Thank you for your responses.
I am indeed developing for windows at the moment, with an eye casually glancing in the MAC direction as a possibility for the future that I shall think about. I'm sorry I couldn't explain better, but being only familiar with the concept in my head from one language, I wasn't quite sure what to say for each thing, how to explain it. The language is actually a bit obscure, and is used in the development of MUDs, Multi-user dungeons. I never considered it would be broken down into several modules, but that makes sense. Now it has been mentioned, I do recall, on linux, briefly playing with psutil to retrieve memory values for a few tasks I keep running on my server. To that end, I think I now know roughly what to do. Something like this: import psutil import os path=os.getcwd()+"\\program.exe" slist=[] for x in psutil.process_iter(): if(x.exe()==path): slist.append([x, x.create_time]_) r.sort() # not sure how to sort by second element, but I'd sort the list by start time if(len(r)>1): # send signal to other program to tell it to do something, either through a ntofiy app or through psutil.send_signal() # exit the program Hope I'm making more sense now, and thank you for the help everyone. Nate On 01/06/2019 04:30, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 5/31/19 1:41 PM, nathan tech wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> So for a future project of mine, I was wondering something. >> >> Is it possible, in python, to store a running task id in the registry? >> >> I might be using the complete wrong terms here, because I'm only used to >> doing this with a specific language, but here's what I want to do: >> >> >> python mytest.py: >> >> if(registry.taskid==valid_task): >> >> print 'already open' >> >> send to open program to make a ding noise. >> >> >> I understand that the second part, the "send to program" requires the >> program to handle being sent a "wake up!" event, which is fine, it's the >> "is it already running" which I am not sure on. > there's a lot your question leaves unasked... do you want to just code > your own apps and have one be able to poke another? that's one problem, > you can define the interface yourself. Or do you want to be able to > poke arbitrary running tasks? that ends up more complicated. many > systems have notification APIs that you can make use of, some of those > are more oriented to that model (the mobile systems Android and Tizen), > some a little less but still support it (Windows - it's a more prevalent > thing in the UWP model). > > the psutil module can let you find things out about processes, might be > useful in your "is the task running" query. > > if it's okay to start processes together and it's not arbitrary, the > multiprocessing module may be of some help. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
