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Re: killing a script

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On 29 August 2011 04:08, Russ P. <russ.paielli@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 28, 7:51 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Aug 28, 6:52 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> >> You could look at the return value of os.system, which may tell you the
>> >> exit status of the process.
>>
>> > Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I guess I could do that, but it seems
>> > that there should be a simpler way to just kill the "whole enchilada."
>> > Hitting Control-C over and over is a bit like whacking moles.
>>
>> I believe the idea of this suggestion is for the outer script to
>> notice that the inner script terminated via Ctrl-C, and would then
>> immediately choose to terminate itself - thus avoiding the
>> whack-a-mole effect.
>>
>> ChrisA
>
> Yes, but if I am not mistaken, that will require me to put a line or
> two after each os.system call. That's almost like whack-a-mole at the
> code level rather than the Control-C level. OK, not a huge deal for
> one script, but I was hoping for something simpler. I was hoping I
> could put one line at the top of the script and be done with it.

Write a function!  That's what they're for after all :)

-- 
Arnaud

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killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 18:15 -0700
  Re: killing a script MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-08-29 02:52 +0100
    Re: killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 19:41 -0700
      Re: killing a script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 12:51 +1000
        Re: killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 20:08 -0700
          Re: killing a script Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-28 20:16 -0700
            Re: killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 20:22 -0700
            Re: killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 14:26 -0700
          Re: killing a script Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-29 09:49 +0200
          Re: killing a script Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 23:53 +0100
            Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-30 14:13 +1000
              Re: killing a script Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-08-30 12:40 +0200
              Re: killing a script Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-09 10:03 +1000
                Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-09 19:07 +1000
                Re: killing a script Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-09-09 12:13 +0200
                Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-09 22:16 +1000
                Re: killing a script Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-10 08:29 +1000
                Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-10 11:25 +1000
                Re: killing a script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 11:37 +1000
                Re: killing a script Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-10 18:49 +1000
                Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-11 15:08 +1000
                Re: killing a script Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-10 10:47 +0100
      Re: killing a script Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-28 19:53 -0700
  Re: killing a script Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-29 07:52 +0100

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