On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:30:15 -0700, Martin Landa wrote: > is there a way how to send command from python script to the shell > (known id) from which the python script has been called?
For Unix, this should work, but in general it's the wrong thing to do: import os import signal os.kill(os.getppid(), signal.SIGKILL) This is a rather unfriendly way to kill the shell (it won't be able to save its history, etc), and if the program was started from something other than a shell, you might kill something you don't want to. Using SIGHUP is more friendly and will probably work, but it could be caught and/or ignored (for bash, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT and SIGINT /will/ be ignored). If the shell can catch the signal in order to save its history, it can catch it and ignore it. There isn't a nice way to do it. There isn't supposed to be a nice way to do it. Processes may control their children, but a child isn't supposed to control its parent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list