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Reputation: 7502

List running jobs in python

How can I get a list of running jobs in python. ie. I basically want the output of the jobs command in a string or list or set.

I am currently trying 

 p1 = subprocess.Popen(['jobs'], shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
 n = p1.communicate()[0].strip()

But this doesnt seem to be working

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2026

Answers (1)

Adam Rosenfield
Adam Rosenfield

Reputation: 400314

You have to keep track of it yourself. The shell keeps track of all of its subprocess jobs, but you're not a shell, so you have to do the tracking yourself. jobs is a Bash shell builtin command, not an actual executable which is run. When you do subprocess.Popen(['jobs'], shell=True), you're spawning a new shall and asking it for its jobs, which is of course empty since it's a new shell without any running jobs.

If you can't keep track of your own running jobs, you're going to have a harder time. On Linux, you could parse /proc and look for all processes which have you as a parent. On Windows, you could do something like this using a wrapper such as pywin32 or the ctypes module to access the Win32 API.

Upvotes: 6

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