Is there a way to check if a subprocess is still running?

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Ouestion: … a way to check if a process is still running …

You can do it for instance:

p = subprocess.Popen(...
"""
A None value indicates that the process hasn't terminated yet.
"""
poll = p.poll()
if poll is None:
  # p.subprocess is alive

Python ยป 3.6.1 Documentation popen-objects

Tested with Python:3.4.2

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