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From: James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:31:06 +1000
Subject: Re: Running and killing a process in python
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Astan Chee <astan.chee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to make a python script (in windows 7 x64 using python 2.5) to
> start a process, and kill it after x minutes/seconds and kill all the
> descendants of it.
> Whats the best way of doing this in python? which module is best suited to
> do this? subprocess?

Yes start with the subprocess module:

http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html

cheers
James

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