sending signals to child process

[Sarir Khamsi]

I would like to start a child process (like w/ popen3(), or some such)
and then be able to interrupt it by sending it a control-c. How do I
do that in Python? Is there a better way to gracefully halt a child
process? Is there a more cross-platform way to start a child process
(popen() is only on UNIX/Win32)? Thanks.

Sarir

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Sarir Khamsi wrote:

I would like to start a child process (like w/ popen3(), or some such)
and then be able to interrupt it by sending it a control-c. How do I
do that in Python? Is there a better way to gracefully halt a child
Use os.kill and the signal module.
process? Is there a more cross-platform way to start a child process
(popen() is only on UNIX/Win32)? Thanks.

In python2.4 there is the subprocess module.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch

[Sarir Khamsi]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <de*********@web.de> writes:

Sarir Khamsi wrote:

I would like to start a child process (like w/ popen3(), or some such)
and then be able to interrupt it by sending it a control-c. How do I
do that in Python? Is there a better way to gracefully halt a child

Use os.kill and the signal module.

process? Is there a more cross-platform way to start a child process
(popen() is only on UNIX/Win32)? Thanks.

In python2.4 there is the subprocess module.

This is what I was looking for...thanks.

Sarir