kill a process in windows python 2.5

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How do i kill a process in windows (xp 32 bits) in python 2.5? Someone on stackoverlow posted on how to import ctypes and do it but I don't have a ctypes module.

I am running the process in the following way-

ex=Execution(cmd)
#do something
ex.proc.kill()

This gives me an error saying Popen object has no attribute kill. Using os.kill(ex.pid, signal.SIGKILL) gives a similar error.

miku · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-11 22:48:05Z

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Among others, I found two ways:

The latter uses the subprocess module in conjunction with taskkill. The former win32api.TerminateProcess.

edited Jul 11, 2012 at 22:48

answered Feb 16, 2011 at 17:55

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miku Over a year ago

@AlexOkrushko, thanks, it was an old Sun link, edited to link to the hopefully same content on Oracle.

xkrz · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-16 18:22:16Z

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Popen.kill() is only available after Python 2.6. For 2.5 and earlier, you can use taskkill or the win32api as mentioned by "The MYYN".

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