Start and control an extern program

[Axel Koehler]

Helo Miki,

thank you for your help. 

Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at zoran.com> writes:

> Hello Axel,
>
>> I want to start an extern program  and simple stop it, after a
>> given time, if not succesfull finished.  OS is Linux
> Use a Timer object and os.kill.

But what is a timer objekt? Can't find it in my documentation 
of the python library.

Axel

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