How to logout from a Python Program?

[Martin Franklin]

On Thursday 10 Oct 2002 2:12 pm, Saqib Ali wrote:
> Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:<Xns92A3181737F65cliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82>...
>
> > Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote in
> > news:3DA4BDBC.27FA2B20 at alcyone.com:
> >
> > i think he wants to exit from a gnome or kde session or whatever
> > windowing system. i don't know a solution. i suspect that it's something
> > GUI dependant.
> >
> > chris
>
> Yes. That's what I want to do. I want to actually kill the shell from
> which the python script was run. For example if somebody has ssh'ed
> into my host, and run my python script, at the end of the script, I
> want it to terminate the ssh session.

Not sure if it will work but you could try getting the parent process ID

os.getppid()


and killing it 

os.kill(pid, sig)

Cheers
Martin
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