Returns the PID of a given process.

from win32com.client import GetObject

def getPID(name):

    """Returns the PID of a given process."""

    

    WMI = GetObject('winmgmts:')

    processes = WMI.InstancesOf('Win32_Process')

    process_list = [(p.Properties_("ProcessID").Value, p.Properties_("Name").Value) for p in processes]

    

    for process in process_list:

        if process[1] == name:

            print("PID of '" + name + "': " + str(process[0]))

            return process[0]