[python-win32] Maybe the wrong newsgroup to ask ?

[Tim Roberts]

Stef Mientki wrote:
>
> Showing the code is always difficult for me, because I encapsulate
> these complex things.
> The code I gave above doesn't work either :-)
> I use a kill method that also kills the children and seems to be the
> essential thing is this situation,
> (btw why are there children ?)

There are child processes because you are setting "shell" to true. 
Thus, subprocess actually launches cmd.exe, and cmd.exe launches Python.

Is there a reason you need a subshell, or was that superstition?

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