Popen3 on Windows

[reed]

Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> I have an application that has been working fine on Linux, but now I need to
> port it to Windows XP.  The program uses Popen3 to run another program.  I
> use Popen3 so that I can access the pid attribute, which I use to kill the
> auxiliary program when necessary.  Popen3 does not exist on Windows.  I see
> os.popen2 and os.popen3, but they provide only file objects for stdin,
> stdout, and stderr so I don't see a way to kill the auxiliary program that
> I start.  Is there a way to do this on Windows?
> --
> Jeffrey Barish

>>>import subprocess
>>>x = subprocess.Popen('nc -l 22222')
>>>x.pid
2783
>>>subprocess.Popen('taskkill %s' % x.pid)
<subprocess.Popen object at 0x0184D410>
>>> x.poll()
1