killing process in windows

Miki Tebeka miki.tebeka at zoran.com
Thu Jun 9 05:06:29 EDT 2005


Hello Veronica,

>    I am using Trent's process.py but I have a problem with killing the
>    processes in windows.
>    For example :
> 
>    import process,time
> 
>    p=process.ProcessOpen('C:\Program Files\Windows Media
>    Player\wmplayer')
>    time.sleep(3)
>    p.kill()
> 
>    will start Media Player without terminating it.
>    Any suggestions?
A brutal way will be to use win32process.TerminateProcess (from win32all
package - http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/).

HTH.
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