I am writing a python script to keep a buggy program open and I need to figure out if the program is not respoding and close it on windows. I can't quite figure out how to do this.

On Windows you can do this:

import os
def isresponding(name):os.system('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq %s" /FI "STATUS eq running" > tmp.txt' % name)tmp = open('tmp.txt', 'r')a = tmp.readlines()tmp.close()if a[-1].split()[0] == name:return Trueelse:return False

It is more robust to use the PID though:

def isrespondingPID(PID):os.system('tasklist /FI "PID eq %d" /FI "STATUS eq running" > tmp.txt' % PID)tmp = open('tmp.txt', 'r')a = tmp.readlines()tmp.close()if int(a[-1].split()[1]) == PID:return Trueelse:return False

From tasklist you can get more information than that. To get the "NOT RESPONDING" processes directly, just change "running" by "not responding" in the functions given. See more info here.