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/ safeshutdown.py
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Safely Shutdown a Windows Console process by name
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| ### Pass an executable name to this and it will terminate it | |
| ### sending a Control-C event to it. It must be running in | |
| ### a tradiditonal Windows console host window. | |
| ### For Windows 10+ | |
| ### Requires Python 3.9+ and no dependencies. | |
| import ctypes | |
| from ctypes import wintypes | |
| import sys | |
| import time |