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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:06:17 -0700
From: Jason Bailey <jbailey@emerytelcom.com>
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:84153

So I've got this python 3 script that needs to know if there is a 
running DHCP daemon (ISC DHCP server) on the local system. Is there a 
clean way to do this that (1) doesn't require me to do syscalls to local 
utilities (like ps, top, etc), and (2) doesn't require any custom 
modules (stock only)?

Thanks