On Tuesday 22 Apr 2008 18:00:02 Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > There is a recipe in the cookbook > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440554 > > Which I've used and it works. Thanks. I found that recipe too. I was hoping I could cook up something similar without having to use the module win32api, but looks like that's not the case.
> > you can also (if on unix) use > > http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect > I'm on Linux. Debian. Pexpect would do the job fine too. The only thing is it's a third party module and so would reduce the portability of my application. But never mind. I guess I have to make a compromise one way or the other. > import os > from subprocess import * > from subprocess import mswindows > from time import sleep > > if mswindows: > import win32api > else: > import signal > > class PopenNB(Popen): > # - see cookbook recipe for rest of stuff > # ... > def kill(self, killpg=False): > """ > Kill the running process > """ > pid = self.pid > if mswindows: > # Kill the process using win32api and pid - ignore errors > try: > PROCESS_TERMINATE = 1 > handle = win32api.OpenProcess(PROCESS_TERMINATE, False, > pid) win32api.TerminateProcess(handle, -1) > win32api.CloseHandle(handle) > except pywintypes.error: > pass > else: > # Kill the process by sending the pid / process group a > signal > if killpg: > try: > pgid = os.getpgid(pid) > except OSError: > killpg = False > try: > if killpg: > os.killpg(pgid, signal.SIGTERM) > else: > os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM) > except OSError: > return > sleep(1.0) > try: > if killpg: > os.killpg(pgid, signal.SIGKILL) > else: > os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL) > except OSError: > return Thanks for this bit of code. It should probably be adaptible to my needs. By the way, the win32api seems to be a nonstandard module (i.e. not present in the main distribution). -- Regards, V. Harishankar http://hari.literaryforums.org http://harishankar.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
