[Python-checkins] [3.6] Doc: Delete "how do I emulate os.kill" section in Windows FAQ (GH-10487) (GH-10768)

[Julien Palard]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a181411f13c5dccdba9c918f86c945e8f6ab9757
commit: a181411f13c5dccdba9c918f86c945e8f6ab9757
branch: 3.6
author: Julien Palard <julien at palard.fr>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-11-28T17:09:18+01:00
summary:

[3.6] Doc: Delete "how do I emulate os.kill" section in Windows FAQ (GH-10487) (GH-10768)

That section is a tip on how to kill process on Windows for Python prior to 2.7 and 3.2.
3.1 end of support was April 2012 and 2.6 was October 2013, so that hasn't been need for supported versions of Python for more than 5 years. Beside not being needed anymore for a long time, when I read it with the eyes of a Python profane, it makes Python looks bad, like a language from the parts with warts you need to circumvent.
Let's delete that :).
(cherry picked from commit a1c40014085d5cc6c12064577e8c10e7182ee9f9)

Co-authored-by: Mathieu Dupuy <deronnax at users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Doc/faq/windows.rst

diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
index 772b8c2012c3..2b44f65692b8 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -280,24 +280,3 @@ How do I check for a keypress without blocking?
 Use the msvcrt module.  This is a standard Windows-specific extension module.
 It defines a function ``kbhit()`` which checks whether a keyboard hit is
 present, and ``getch()`` which gets one character without echoing it.
-
-
-How do I emulate os.kill() in Windows?
---------------------------------------
-
-Prior to Python 2.7 and 3.2, to terminate a process, you can use :mod:`ctypes`:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   import ctypes
-
-   def kill(pid):
-       """kill function for Win32"""
-       kernel32 = ctypes.windll.kernel32
-       handle = kernel32.OpenProcess(1, 0, pid)
-       return (0 != kernel32.TerminateProcess(handle, 0))
-
-In 2.7 and 3.2, :func:`os.kill` is implemented similar to the above function,
-with the additional feature of being able to send :kbd:`Ctrl+C` and :kbd:`Ctrl+Break`
-to console subprocesses which are designed to handle those signals. See
-:func:`os.kill` for further details.