add settable info property on psutil.Process, default to empty dict

[ringohoffman]

Summary

• OS: linux, darwin
• Bug fix: no
• Type: new-api (adding an official property for psutil.Process.info)
• Related: Process has no attribute info - process_iter from psutil python/typeshed#10195, Set Process.info to None by default #2260

Motivation

This example from the docs raises type errors since info is not defined in the __init__:

https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#psutil.process_iter:

import psutil
for proc in psutil.process_iter(['pid', 'name', 'username']):
    print(proc.info)  # Cannot access member "info" for type "Process"; Member "info" is unknown

Description

This PR is an alternate implementation of #10195, addressing @giampaolo's comment: #2260 (comment)

I suppose it's less surprising for the user if info attribute is always set. I wonder if it's more correct for it to be an empty dict {} rather than None though.

Which I agree with.

Here is the typeshed update corresponding to this PR: python/typeshed#10275

[ringohoffman]

@giampaolo how’s this looking?

[ringohoffman]

@giampaolo have you had a chance to check this out?

[qthequartermasterman]

@giampaolo Is there any plan to look at this? I would like to use it in a project of mine.

[ringohoffman]

@giampaolo any chance you can look at this?