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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:09:47 -0600
Subject: Re: How to get the list of all my open file(descriptor)s and locks?
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ismael Farf=E1n <sulfurfff@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> So the question:
> * If I execve a python script (from C), how can I retrieve the list of
> files, and optionally the list of locks, from within the execve(d)
> python process so that I can use them?
>
>
> Some more info:
> I'm working with exotic stuff like AIX and Solaris 10 (Windows and
> linux too :) and my lowest common denominator is python 2.3.

You could do:

os.listdir("/proc/%d/fd" % os.getpid())

This should work on Linux, AIX, and Solaris, but obviously not on Windows.