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authorBrian Curtin <brian.curtin@gmail.com>2010-04-12 18:10:10 (GMT)
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@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ present, and ``getch()`` which gets one character without echoing it.
How do I emulate os.kill() in Windows?
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-To terminate a process, you can use ctypes::
+Prior to Python 2.7 and 3.2, to terminate a process, you can use :mod:`ctypes`::
import ctypes
@@ -455,6 +455,11 @@ To terminate a process, you can use ctypes::
handle = kernel32.OpenProcess(1, 0, pid)
return (0 != kernel32.TerminateProcess(handle, 0))
+In 2.7 and 3.2, :func:`os.kill` is implemented similar to the above function,
+with the additional feature of being able to send CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK
+to console subprocesses which are designed to handle those signals. See
+:func:`os.kill` for further details.
+
Why does os.path.isdir() fail on NT shared directories?
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