How to get a PID of a child process from a process openden with Popen()

Fri Apr 8 10:43:41 EDT 2011

> 	p = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split("kdesu -u test program"))
>> How can I aquire the PID of the program which kdesu starts?
You can run "ps --ppid <p.pid>" and get the line containing test program.
The first field there should be the child process id.
HTH
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