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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:33:16+00:00

I think this is a pretty basic question, but here it is anyway. I

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I think this is a pretty basic question, but here it is anyway.

I need to write a python script that checks to make sure a process, say notepad.exe, is running. If the process is running, do nothing. If it is not, start it. How would this be done.

I am using Python 2.6 on Windows XP

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are a couple of options,

    1: the more crude but obvious would be to do some text processing against:

    os.popen('tasklist').read()

    2: A more involved option would be to use pywin32 and research the win32 APIs to figure out what processes are running.

    3: WMI (I found this just now), and here is a vbscript example of how to query the machine for processes through WMI.

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