Killing a process created with Python's subprocess.Popen() [duplicate]

Answer 1

How about using os.kill? See the docs here: http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.kill

Answer 2

In your code it should be

proc1.kill()

Both kill or terminate are methods of the Popen object which sends the signal signal.SIGKILL to the process.

Answer 3

process.terminate() doesn't work when using shell=True. This answer will help you.

Answer 4

Only use Popen kill method

process = subprocess.Popen(
    task.getExecutable(), 
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE, 
    stderr=subprocess.PIPE, 
    shell=True
)
process.kill()