sending signals to child process

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Sarir Khamsi wrote:

> I would like to start a child process (like w/ popen3(), or some such)
> and then be able to interrupt it by sending it a control-c. How do I
> do that in Python? Is there a better way to gracefully halt a child

Use os.kill and the signal module.

> process? Is there a more cross-platform way to start a child process
> (popen() is only on UNIX/Win32)? Thanks.

In python2.4 there is the subprocess module.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch