Suppose we spawn a child process with Popen. I'm thinking of an
executable file, like a compiled C program.
Suppose it is supposed to run for one minute, but it just keeps going
and going. Does Python have any way to kill it?
This is not hypothetical; I'm doing it now, and it's working pretty
well, but I would like to be able to handle this run-on condition. I'm
using Windows 2000, but I want my program to be portable to linux.
Thanks
Mitchell Timin
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Using Pywin32 (obviously not cross platform):
import win32api,win32c on
h=win32api.Open Process(win32co n.PROCESS_TERMI NATE,False, <pid>)
win32api.Termin ateProcess(h, <exit code>)
Roger
"I. Myself" <No*****@Spam.n one> wrote in message news:g0x5g.1046 39$7a.102977@pd 7tw1no... Suppose we spawn a child process with Popen. I'm thinking of an executable file, like a compiled C program.
Suppose it is supposed to run for one minute, but it just keeps going and going. Does Python have any way to kill it?
This is not hypothetical; I'm doing it now, and it's working pretty well, but I would like to be able to handle this run-on
condition. I'm using Windows 2000, but I want my program to be portable to linux.
Thanks
Mitchell Timin
--
I'm proud of http://ANNEvolve.sourceforge.net. If you want to write software,
or articles, or do testing or research for ANNEvolve, let me know.
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zenguy at shaw666 dot ca
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