James Mills wrote:
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Astan Chee <astan.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to make a python script (in windows 7 x64 using python 2.5) to
start a process, and kill it after x minutes/seconds and kill all the
descendants of it.
Whats the best way of doing this in python? which module is best suited to
do this? subprocess?
Yes start with the subprocess module:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
cheers
James
As an alternative, you can have a look at
http://codespeak.net/execnet/index.html
This module is designed to execute processes on remote machines, but it
works great on the local host as well.
Among its features are:
"
- easy creation, handling and termination of multiple processes
- fully interoperable between Windows and Unix-ish systems
"
While it has more feature than what you need, if you do simple things,
it stays simple.
(I never used subprocess with Windows, so I don't know if killing
process is that easy. On *nix system, you should probably choose
subprocess, execnet would be overkill)
JM
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