Christian Heimes wrote: > John Nagle wrote: >> There doesn't seem to be any way to portably kill another process >> in Python. "os.kill" is Mac/Unix only. The "signal" module only lets >> you send signals to the current process. And the "subprocess" module >> doesn't have a "kill" function. >> >> Subprocess objects really should have a portable "interrupt" or >> "kill" function. They already have "poll" and "wait", which have >> to be implemented differently for different systems; that's the >> logical place for "kill". >> >> Yes, there are nonportable workarounds >> (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/347462) >> but no portable solution. > > We are looking for somebody to implement a portable and cross platform > implementation of kill() and send_signal() for the subprocess module. > Are you interested in working on a patch for Python 2.6 and 3.0? > Since I use 2.4 and 2.5, I'm interested in something that goes back to at least 2.4.
The ActiveState solution above needs C modules that aren't part of the regular CPython distribution, unfortunately. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list