How to check status of process

[Luca Brasi]

Hi guys,

I'd like to do something which shouldn't be a problem for the experts here.
As I'm not, I'm just gonna ask:

I want to execute some macros just in case a special process is running.
If it's not the macro should stop.

I have several use cases for this. E.g. sometimes mediaportal won't close on close command so I want to check the macro a few seconds later if it is still running. If so I would run a kill.bat

Could you please help me out?

Thanks
Luca

[Luca Brasi]

Hey guys,

come on, this should be a no-brainer for you! Would be very grateful for some help!

Thanks
Luca

[Luca Brasi]

Sorted it out:

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from win32com.client import GetObject
WMI = GetObject('winmgmts:')
eg.result = len( WMI.ExecQuery('select * from Win32_Process where Name="mediaportal.exe"') ) > 0

[kalia]

Thanks Luca for posting the solution. I didn't realize that I needed something like this until you posted the code.

[Luca Brasi]

Thanks for your reply kalia.
Just want to mention that I took it from this german post