Kill a process in windows python 2.5

Question

How to kill a process on Windows (xp 32 bits) in python 2.5? Someone from stackoverlow reported how to import ctypes and do it, but I don't have a ctypes module.

I start the process as follows:

ex=Execution(cmd)
#do something
ex.proc.kill() 

This gives me an error saying that the Popen object does not have the kill attribute. Using os.kill (ex.pid, signal.SIGKILL) gives a similar error.

Answer 1

Among others, I found two ways:

• http://metazin.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-to-kill-a-process-in-windows-using-python/
• https://blogs.oracle.com/rajkumar/entry/how_to_kill_a_process

The latter uses a module subprocessin conjunction with taskkill. First one win32api.TerminateProcess.

Answer 2

Popen.kill() Python 2.6. 2.5 taskkill win32api, "MYYN".