psutil example
$ pip install psutil import psutil def main2(): pid = os.getpid() print pid p = psutil.Process(pid) print p.name print p.exe print p.status print p.username print p.create_time print p.terminal print p.uids print p.gids print p.get_cpu_percent(interval=1.0) print p.get_memory_percent() print p.get_memory_info() print p.get_cpu_times() print p.get_io_counters() print p.get_open_files() print p.get_connections() print p.get_threads() print p.nice p.suspend() p.resume() p.terminate() print 'asfd'