cerr <ron.egg...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm calling a python script from a php script which again calls a perl > script with subprocess.popen(). > This seems to work fine so far only that once the python script > completed it is becoming a zombie because the perl script in the > background is still running... so before i exit the python script, i > would need to kill my perl subprocess. > How can i do so?
x.terminate() (and then x.wait()) where x is the value returned by subprocess.Popen(). -- Alain. P/S: I'm not sure why the python process survives, and I think your use of "zombie" is not correct (afaik a zombie is an exited process whose parent hasn't called wait() yet) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
