How to stop a linux process

[Simon Brunning]

On 11/28/05, Glen <stygian at tesco.net> wrote:
> When I used the following line to play a midi file in linux,
>
> return_value = os.system('timidity test.mid')
>
> I have encountered two problems.
> 1. The python script halts until timidity has finished.
> 2. If I had control of the script, I can't think how I would stop timidity.
>
> Any advice on the 'area' of python I should be looking at would be greatly
> appreciated.

The subprocess module might be worth a look.

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