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How do you kill a subprocess in python?


Asked by Yosef Rich on Dec 12, 2021 FAQ



Python will make a best effort to kill the subprocess after the timeout number of seconds, but it won’t necessarily be exact. Sometimes programs expect input to be passed to them via stdin. The input keyword argument to subprocess.run allows you to pass data to the stdin of the subprocess.
Next,
# Get the process id & try to terminate it gracefuly pid = p.pid p.terminate () # Check if the process has really terminated & force kill if not. try: os.kill (pid, 0) p.kill () print "Forced kill" except OSError, e: print "Terminated gracefully" Try wrapping your subprocess.Popen call in a try except block.
Just so, os.kill() method in Python is used to send specified signal to the process with specified process id. Constants for the specific signals available on the host platform are defined in the signal module. Parameters: pid: An integer value representing process id to which signal is to be sent.
Moreover,
Using the subprocess Module¶. The recommended approach to invoking subprocesses is to use the run() function for all use cases it can handle. For more advanced use cases, the underlying Popen interface can be used directly.
Also Know,
CalledProcessError ¶ Subclass of SubprocessError, raised when a process run by check_call () or check_output () returns a non-zero exit status. Exit status of the child process. If the process exited due to a signal, this will be the negative signal number.