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Killing subprocesses in python
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| import time | |
| import subprocess | |
| import threading | |
| cmd = ['timeout', '10'] | |
| p = subprocess.Popen(cmd) | |
| p.killed = False | |
| def timeout(): | |
| time.sleep(1) | |
| if p.poll() is None: | |
| p.killed = True | |
| p.kill() | |
| t = threading.Thread(target=timeout) | |
| t.start() | |
| p.wait() | |
| print "killed", p.killed | |
| print "returncode", p.returncode |
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