[Python-Dev] About SSL tests (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Tue Apr 3 04:33:57 CEST 2007

Facundo Batista <facundo at taniquetil.com.ar> wrote:

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > If the openssl binary is available, when the test starts, launch it in > a child process, talk to it for the test, then kill it when the test is > done.

Ok, I have a demo of this. Right now, I face this problem. I launch openssl through subprocess, but I do not find a way to tell him to quit serving, so all I can do is to kill the process (through the pid from the Popen object). The problem is that os.kill only works in Unix and Macintosh. So, there's a better way to do this? Or I shall check if I'm in one of those both platforms and only execute the tests there?

If you have a compilation of pywin32 (isn't it shipped by default in Python 2.5+?), you can kill the process with win32process.TerminateProcess() .

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