How to retrieve the process start time (or uptime) in python

python linux process uptime
stanleyxu2005 picture stanleyxu2005 · Apr 8, 2010 · Viewed 45.7k times · Source

How to retrieve the process start time (or uptime) in python in Linux?

I only know, I can call "ps -p my_process_id -f" and then parse the output. But it is not cool.

Answer

Giampaolo Rodolà picture Giampaolo Rodolà · Dec 30, 2010

By using psutil https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil:

>>> import psutil, os, time
>>> p = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
>>> p.create_time()
1293678383.0799999
>>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.localtime(p.create_time()))
'2010-12-30 04:06:23'
>>>

...plus it's cross platform, not only Linux.

NB: I am one of the authors of this project.

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