I'm using Python 2.6. Sometimes there become several instances of a certain process open, and that process causes some problems in itself. I want to be able to programatically detect that there are multiple instances of that process and to kill them.
For example, maybe in some cases there are 50 instances of make.exe open. I want to be able to tell that there are 20 instances open, and to kill them all. How is this accomplished?
I would think you could just use taskkill and the Python os.system()
import os
os.system("taskkill /im make.exe")
Note: I would just note you might have to fully qualify the taskkill path. I am using a Linux box so I can't test...
os.popen('tasklist').readlines() to get a list of the processes currently executing, and thus can count the number of instances the process you're looking for appears in the list and use that to determine if it's time to kill all of them. Usage of subprocess.Popen() is a bit more complicated, but os.popen() was deprecated starting with Python 2.6, so there's that to keep in mind. See stackoverflow.com/questions/3215262/monitor-process-in-python/… for how to utilize subprocess.Popen() for this same sort of task.os.popen('tasklist').read() could be used to get the entire list as one string, if there's a str function to count the occurrences of a substring within a larger string.
subprocess.check_output('tasklist') will do much better at error handling
/F flag to force terminate.
Yes,You can do it
import os
os.system("taskkill /f /im Your_Process_Name.exe")
/fThere is a nice cross-platform python utility psutil that exposes a kill() routine on a processes that can be listed with psutil.process_iter().
There is already an example in the other thread: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4230226/4571444
I think the code is like this will work:
import os
def terminate(ProcessName):
os.system('taskkill /IM "' + ProcessName + '" /F')
terminate('chrome.exe')
You can use the TerminateProcess of the win32 api to kill a process. See the following example : http://code.activestate.com/recipes/347462-terminating-a-subprocess-on-windows/
You need to give it a process handle. If the process is started from your code, the process handle is returned by the CreateProcess or popen.
If the process was started by something else, you need to get this handle you can use EnumProcess or WMI to retrieve it.
How about this, I tested it with ActiveState Python 2.7:
import sys, traceback, os
def pkill (process_name):
try:
killed = os.system('tskill ' + process_name)
except Exception, e:
killed = 0
return killed
call it with:
pkill("program_name")
psutil: psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#kill-process-tree