How to logout from a Python Program?

[Erik Max Francis]

Wayne Pierce wrote:

> What about os.system("logout")?

logout is just a synonym for exit.  That will exit the subshell that was
fired up by os.system, not the parent shell that he wants to kill.

In this case, his best option is, as brutal as it sounds, to send a
signal to the parent process of the Python script (which would be his
main shell).  Unfortunately, in its standard configuration, an ssh
tunneled shell is likely to ignore TERM, so you might be forced to use
KILL, which makes the prospects even less satisfying.

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