Sending Cntrl-C ??

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Tue Apr 29 17:48:12 EDT 2008


gamename schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I really like this recipe for controlling subprocesses:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440554
> 
> However, I can't figure out how I can send the equivalent of "Cntrl-C"
> to the subprocess.  How can that be done?

import os
import signal
import subprocess

popen = subprocess(...)
os.kill(popen.pid, signal.SIGINT)

Or with Python 2.6+:

popen.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)

Christian




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