On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 28, 6:52 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> You could look at the return value of os.system, which may tell you the >> exit status of the process. > > Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I guess I could do that, but it seems > that there should be a simpler way to just kill the "whole enchilada." > Hitting Control-C over and over is a bit like whacking moles.
I believe the idea of this suggestion is for the outer script to notice that the inner script terminated via Ctrl-C, and would then immediately choose to terminate itself - thus avoiding the whack-a-mole effect. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list