Psutil 'Process' object has no attribute 'terminal'

Question

Ok so I started using psutil 2.1.1 with Python 2.7.6 and I wanted to test some commands as follows:

import psutil
psutil.pids()
p = psutil.Process(6096)
p.name() # gives u'googletalk.exe'
p.terminal()

These are the commands I used from the psutil 2.1.1 documentation, I used every command from the process management section.

The moment I use p.terminal I get the error:

'Process' object has no attribute 'terminal'

I used the above code in both the shell and a new file with the same result.

Does `p.terminal()` return `None` or does it throw an Exception? What OS are you using? (The Windows implementation e.g. does not define this method) — muffel, Jun 15 '14 at 09:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 15 '14 at 10:28

p = psutil.Process(6096)
p.name() # gives u'googletalk.exe'

According to the process name googletalk.exe you are using Windows. The Process.terminal() method is not implemented for Windows (Windows doesn't have the concept of Terminals in a way *nix-like systems have).

The common implementation of class Process (_ init_.py) refers to the platform-specific implementations (line 610, assigned by line 317) - that's why you get an error (not defined in _pswindows.py).

Psutil 'Process' object has no attribute 'terminal'

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