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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Only getting the first 6 lines
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:58:49 +0200
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I want to get the first 6 lines of ps output. For this I use:
========================================================================
from subprocess import check_output

ps_command = ('ps', '-eo', 'user,pid,pcpu,pmem,stat,start,time,cmd', '--sort')
message = '\n'.join(check_output(ps_command + ('-%cpu',)).decode("utf-8").splitlines()[0:6])
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It works, but does not look very efficient. Is there a better way to
do this?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof