module providing convenience functions for managing processes (doc)

 psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on
 running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory) in a portable way
 by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by tools like
 ps, top and Windows task manager.
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 It currently supports Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and Windows.
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 This package contains the documentation for psutil.