title: Check with Python if Outlook is already open, if not open it
body: <p>I wrote a python script which often sends mails via Outlook. The problem is if I don't have Outlook open, no mails will be send. (I use Outlook 2013)
  Now I want to check at the beginning of my script if Outlook is already open, and if not I want to open it with python to avoid the errors.</p>
  
  <p>How do I check if Outlook is already running via Python 2.7 ? To start Outlook I would use the simple code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  os.startfile("outlook")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help!</p>