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diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst index 7cd16b0..8a20950 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ present, and ``getch()`` which gets one character without echoing it. How do I emulate os.kill() in Windows? -------------------------------------- -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? ------------------------------------------------------- @@ -536,7 +541,7 @@ assumed by the Python interpreter it won't work. The Python 1.5.* DLLs (``python15.dll``) are all compiled with MS VC++ 5.0 and with multithreading-DLL options (``/MD``). -If you can't change compilers or flags, try using :cfunc:`Py_RunSimpleString`. +If you can't change compilers or flags, try using :c:func:`Py_RunSimpleString`. A trick to get it to run an arbitrary file is to construct a call to :func:`execfile` with the name of your file as argument. |