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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Tue Apr 3 08:44:15 CEST 2007

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>> 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() . On Win32, you also have subprocess.TerminateProcess, if you have the subprocess module in the first place.

Indeed! Or even ctypes. Ok, 3 different possible ways of killing a process on Windows. I think that's enough for now. :)

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