Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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() . - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
