You can use PROC.poll() to find out whether the process has exited yet
or not (for instance, in a 'while' loop along with a delay). I don't know
what facilities exist to forcibly terminate programs on Windows, though.
On Unix, os.kill() can be used to kill a process given its pid. Perhaps
some of
I calling a Windows executable with PROC = subprocess.Popen('...'), and
blocking further python execution until the process terminates with
PROC.wait(). Occasionally, something unusual happens with the
subprocess, and it fails without terminating the process. When this
happens, my Python program
