getting svchost path by PID using python 2.7

Question

i am trying to get svchost.exe path by PID using python. i tried it using psutil but i got access denied error.

here is my code-

  import psutil
  p = psutil.Process(1832)
  print p.exe()

Answer 1

you can get process path using wmi module.

Here is a sample code for you. This code fids all process named svchost and return path to the process. This returns full information on process.

import wmi
import psutil

c = wmi.WMI ()
process = psutil.Process(2276)

process_name = process.name()

for process in c.Win32_Process(name=process_name):
  if process.ExecutablePath:
            print (process.ExecutablePath)

Output

 c:\windows\system32\svchost.exe
c:\windows\system32\svchost.exe
c:\windows\system32\svchost.exe