killing a script

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Russ P. <russ.paielli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 28, 7:51 pm, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Russ P. <russ.paie... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Aug 28, 6:52 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> >> You could look at the return value of os.system, which may tell you the
>> >> exit status of the process.
>>
>> > Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I guess I could do that, but it seems
>> > that there should be a simpler way to just kill the "whole enchilada."
>> > Hitting Control-C over and over is a bit like whacking moles.
>>
>> I believe the idea of this suggestion is for the outer script to
>> notice that the inner script terminated via Ctrl-C, and would then
>> immediately choose to terminate itself - thus avoiding the
>> whack-a-mole effect.
>>
>> ChrisA
>
> Yes, but if I am not mistaken, that will require me to put a line or
> two after each os.system call.

Er, just write a wrapper for os.system(), e.g.:

def mysystem(cmd):
    if os.system(cmd):
        sys.exit()

Also, you may want to switch to using the `subprocess` module instead.

Cheers,
Chris