On 24/08/12 17:05, Ray Jones wrote:
On 08/24/2012 12:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On 24/08/12 16:27, Ray Jones wrote:
I am forever confused, however, on which methods can be found where. I
just spent quarter of an hour searching in sys,* os.*, and shutil.*. for
a 'kill' command that I knew I'd seen before....I found it hidden in
subprocess.Popen. Arrrgggh. These various imports are going to drive me
to drink!
Possibly you've already started the drive? *wink*
There is an os.kill.
http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.kill
Yes, I'd found that, but that requires a file descriptor rather than a
file object - and I haven't advanced to file descriptors yet.... ;)
os.kill doesn't take a file descriptor. It's a wrapper around the Unix/Linux
kill command, and so takes a process id and a signal, exactly as you would use
if you were using kill in the shell.
As the Fine Manual says:
os.kill(pid, sig)
Send signal sig to the process pid. Constants for the specific signals
available on the host platform are defined in the signal module.
--
Steven
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