There's no need to use taskill.exe; keep a reference of the subprocess.Popen() object around and use its kill() method instead.
--- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib http://code.google.com/p/psutil 2010/6/21 shanti bhushan <ershantibhus...@gmail.com>: > On Jun 21, 10:41 am, shanti bhushan <ershantibhus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I want to invoke local wen server named mogoose, and kill it after >> some time by python script. >> Then i want to change the argument and invoke it again. >> >> I am able to do this with below code. >> >> import subprocess >> import time >> >> def invoke_server1(): >> s1ret=subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "D: >> \372\pythonweb\mongoose-2.8.exe >YourOutput.txt"') >> print s1ret >> >> def invoke_server2(): >> s2ret=subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "D: >> \372\pythonweb\mongoose-2.8.exe -root D:\New1\ >YourOutput.txt"') >> print s2ret >> def invoke_server3(): >> s3ret=subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "D: >> \372\pythonweb\mongoose-2.8.exe -root D:\New2\ >YourOutput.txt"') >> print s3ret >> >> def kill_server(): >> killret=subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c >> "taskkill /F /IM mongoose-2.8.exe >YourOutput1.txt"') >> print killret >> >> kill_server() >> time.sleep(5) >> invoke_server1() >> time.sleep(5) >> kill_server() >> time.sleep(5) >> invoke_server2() >> time.sleep(5) >> kill_server() >> time.sleep(10) >> invoke_server3() >> time.sleep(5) >> kill_server() >> >> This works fine in python26 ,but when i use this code in one testing >> tool, server is invoked 1st time properly.but for second time it says >> process already occupied cannot access the process. I am not able to >> understand why subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c >> "taskkill /F /IM mongoose-2.8.exe is not working second time .Please >> guide me in this respect. >> >> Or please tell me is there any other way,to do same thing with python >> script that will start and kill windows process for my requirement. >> >> Regards >> Bhushan > > i am getting following error message > "process cannot acces the file because it is being used by other > process" > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
