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From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: how to get PID from subprocess library
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:45:09 +0300
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TheSaint <nobody@nowhere.net.no> writes:

>         self.handle= \
>         xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%s/rpc' %int(self.numport))

Couldn't you just try to call something via this handle, like
self.handle.aria2.getVersion()? If there's an error, then start aria2
as a daemon and try again.