windows code to detect if a process is still alive

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Martin Pool wrote:

> For detection of stale lock files, I want to detect whether a given
> process id on the local machine still corresponds to a live process.
> On unix, kill(pid, 0) will do this.  What's the best way to do this
> from inside Python on Windows?

I don't know too much about Python, but as (C code) fopen("file", "w") locks
a file for others automatically on Windows, doesn't Python just use
that internally for locking?

Have a nice day,
Berny