How to retrieve the process start time (or uptime) in python

Question

How to retrieve the process start time (or uptime) in python in Linux?

I only know, I can call "ps -p my_process_id -f" and then parse the output. But it is not cool.

Answer 1

By using psutil https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil:

>>> import psutil, os, time >>> p = psutil.Process(os.getpid()) >>> p.create_time() 1293678383.0799999 >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.localtime(p.create_time())) '2010-12-30 04:06:23' >>> 

...plus it's cross platform, not only Linux.

NB: I am one of the authors of this project.