py-setproctitle
py-setproctitle is a library that allows a Python process to change its title, as displayed by system tools such as ps and top. Changing the title is useful in multi-process systems, for example when a master process is forked: changing the child's title allows you to identify the task each process is busy with. It is based on PostgreSQL's multi-platform implementation.
| Tags | Python process title |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD License |
| Operating Systems | Linux Windows Mac OS X BSD |
| Implementation | C Python |
Last announcement
Porting setproctitle to Python3 25 Jun 2010
Just starting an effort to port the extension module to Python 3. The Python 3 porting is mostly motivated by a renewed interest in including a met...
Recent releases
- 20 Feb 2013 00:42
Release Notes: This release adds PyPy support.
- 27 Apr 2012 19:24
Release Notes: The module can be compiled on Windows again (issue #21).
- 23 Mar 2012 21:59
Release Notes: No module bugfix, but a packaging one: release 1.1.4 didn't include README and HISTORY files. They are now included.
- 15 Mar 2012 21:28
Release Notes: The module now works correctly in embedded Python (for instance, in mod_wsgi). It now has debug output support always compiled in (the variable SPT_DEBUG can be used to emit the debugging log).
- 05 Feb 2012 23:17
Release Notes: This release allows you to change the title of a process running an embedded Python interpreter, for instance in mod_wsgi. This is a test release: it is not available on PyPI, but it can be found on the project homepage.
dvarrazzo
15 Apr 2010 00:23
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