python CPU load on MBPro at 99.9%

[Kevin Callahan]

A friend pointed out that top was taking up a lot of cycles on his  
new MBPro - so I launched the terminal and ran top -
mine was in the 8-10% range on my MBPro (we each have MBPro17s)

but I noticed a lot of python cycles -
apps showing in my DOCK that are running right now include:

Finder
Dashboard (with NO widgets running)
Terminal

how do I track down the python processes ?  is the Finder in 10.4.8  
running python ?

  6243 python      99.9%  5:44:24   3    36    84  3.25M  1.11M   
4.13M- 31.0M
6209 python       0.0%  0:00.38   1    16    77  2.93M  1.11M  3.84M   
29.8M
6201 python       0.0%  0:00.50   1    16    77  2.93M  1.11M  3.84M   
29.8M
5184 python       0.0%  0:00.42   1    16    77  2.93M  1.11M  3.84M   
29.8M
4661 python       0.0%  0:00.54   1    32    77  3.05M  1.11M  3.96M   
29.8M
4406 python       0.0%  0:00.36   1    16    77  2.93M  1.11M  3.58M   
29.8M
2652 python       0.0%  0:00.45   1    16    77  2.93M  1.11M  3.58M   
29.8M
2572 python       0.0%  0:00.37   1    16    77  2.93M  1.11M  3.58M   
29.8M
2559 python       0.0%  0:02.97   3    36    92  3.46M  1.11M  3.91M   
31.5M
2551 python       0.0%  0:00.50   1    16    77  2.93M  1.11M  3.58M   
29.8M
2288 python       0.0%  0:00.55   1    16    77  2.93M  1.11M  3.58M   
29.8M
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