stopping a python windows service

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Here are 2 recipes from the online Python Cookbook. I've used this one
very successfully:
<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/115875>.

This one seems simpler:
<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/59872>

Grig