This example shows how to retrieve a list of windows and the PIDs of their processes on Windows. It is written for Python 3.
This is achieved using an external tool, (
windowlist.exe
) which must be placed in the folder of the test suite. (An alternative is to use tasklist.exe, which ships with Windows - but it does not list all windows.)
Wildcards such as * are not supported — they're matched as literal characters, not as pattern placeholders. Instead, matching works by simple substring: the text you pass in just needs to appear somewhere inside the actual window title or process name, not match it exactly. For example, "Address Book" will match a window titled Address Book - Unnamed, but "Address Book *" will fail to match unless that literal asterisk is actually present in the title.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import subprocess
def main():
pids = get_pids_for_window_title("Address Book")
test.log(str(pids))
pids = get_pids_for_process_name("Addressbook.exe")
test.log(str(pids))
def get_pids_for_window_title(window_title_excerpt):
p = subprocess.Popen(
args=squishinfo.testCase + "/../windowlist",
shell=True,
stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
universal_newlines=True)
stdout = p.communicate()[0]
last_pid = None
pids = []
for l in stdout.split("\n"):
if l.startswith("PID: "):
last_pid = l[5:]
continue
elif l.startswith("Window Title: ") \
and not last_pid in pids:
t = l.split(": ", 1)[1]
if window_title_excerpt in t:
pids.append(last_pid)
return pids
def get_pids_for_process_name(process_name_excerpt):
p = subprocess.Popen(
args=squishinfo.testCase + "/../windowlist.exe",
shell=True,
stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
universal_newlines=True)
stdout = p.communicate()[0]
last_pid = None
pids = []
for l in stdout.split("\n"):
if l.startswith("PID: "):
last_pid = l[5:]
continue
elif l.startswith("Process Name: ") \
and not last_pid in pids:
n = l.split(": ", 1)[1]
if process_name_excerpt in n:
pids.append(last_pid)
return pidsRelated Information: