Using Pywin32 (obviously not cross platform):
import win32api,win32con
h=win32api.OpenProcess(win32con.PROCESS_TERMINATE,False, <pid>)
win32api.TerminateProcess(h, <exit code>)
Roger
"I. Myself" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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