Proper way to kill child processes

[Mathias Waack]

Bob Swerdlow wrote:

> My application starts up a number of processes for various purposes
> using:
>     self.popen = popen2.Popen3("/usr/local/bin/python -O
>     "myscript.py")

This works for me:

  self.popen = popen2.Popen3(["python", "/usr/local/bin/python", 
                        "-O", "myscript.py"])

But I don't know if its a hack or a desired feature. 

Mathias