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Author eli.bendersky
Recipients Aneesh, Peter.Caven, brian.curtin, eli.bendersky, georg.brandl, kbk, loewis, ned.deily, sunqiang, terry.reedy, tim.golden, vstinner
Date 2011-07-23.11:21:45
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I don't think there's a problem with os.spawnv and os.kill - they do what their docs describe.

IMHO, the solution should be to change IDLE so that it uses subprocess.Popen for both starting and killing the child process.
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2011-07-23 11:21:46eli.benderskysetrecipients: + eli.bendersky, loewis, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, kbk, vstinner, tim.golden, ned.deily, brian.curtin, sunqiang, Peter.Caven, Aneesh
2011-07-23 11:21:46eli.benderskysetmessageid: <1311420106.03.0.660712308701.issue12540@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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