Howto get process id from window handler (windows)

[Colin Brown]

"Miki Tebeka" <tebeka at cs.bgu.ac.il> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I'd like to find a application by name and then terminate it.
> EnumWindows gives my the window handle of all current windows, however
> TerminateProcess needs a process handle.
>
> How can I make the link? (hWnd -> hInstance)
>
> Thanks.
> Miki

Hi Miki

A solution I have been using for doing under-the-hood windows management is
to call various "pstools" utilities ( www.sysinternals.com ) with
os.system(). "pskill" will kill processes by name or pid.

os.system(r'c:\pstools\pskill your_process > nul')

Colin Brown
PyNZ