[Python-Dev] About SSL tests

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. :)


 - Josiah



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