How to find out which program running in the foreground in windows, preference in python

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Hello, I need to create a time counter that counts only when pycharm is open in the foreground, and other programs. How do I know which screen is being used in the foreground in Windows? I want to do it in python. Thank you!

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This code shows who is running, it is a loop but serves as an example:

import win32gui
import time
import psutil
import win32process

i = 0

while i <= 1:
    time.sleep(1)
    w = win32gui
    w.GetWindowText (w.GetForegroundWindow())
    pid = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId(w.GetForegroundWindow())
    print(psutil.Process(pid[-1]).name())

From then on you can implement your business rule on top of this code.

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