starting/killing a process on windows?

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jani at persian.com (Jani Yusef) wrote in message news:<d3be1825.0406281302.5c5c63ed at posting.google.com>...
> I am using the win32pipe module to create a process like so:
>     self.proc_in,self.proc_out,self.proc_err=win32pipe.popen3(self.prog)
> How do I kill this process from within my python application?
> Obviously, if I exit the script itself this will kill everything but I
> would like to kill this subprocess and continue execution. Indeed,
> this subprocess is started from within a child thread of my main
> application.
> Any advice?

Look for a script called killProcName.py which comes with the win32
modules. That will pretty much do as described.