sending ctrl C to a program

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

s99999999s2003 at yahoo.com wrote:

> hi
> i have a program that works very similar to tail -f in Unix
> It will need a Ctrl-C in order to break out of the program.
> I wish to run this program using python (either thru os.system() or
> some other subprocess modules) and how can i pass Ctrl-C to this
> program to terminate it in python?
> thanks

Isn't SIGINT the same as ctrl-c?

So something like 

import os
os.kill(1234, 2)

would send ctrl-c to process 1234.

If you just want the process to quit, you could probably just send it a
SIGTERM, which is signal 15.

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