Get list of names of running processes in python

Question

I need to get list of names of running processes in python. I m doing this by psutil.process_iter in a for loop. But i need faster way to check if process is running. Also if it would be possible, rather then a list I would appreciate a tuple. Thanks for any response.

Answer 1

you can use WMI, there is an example in Python using the wmi module:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/cookbook.html

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()

for process in c.Win32_Process ():
    print process.ProcessId, process.Name