How do I close the stdout-pipe when killing a process started with python subprocess Popen?

Question

I wonder if it is possible to shut down the communication pipe when killing a subprocess started in a different thread. If I do not call communicate() then kill() will work as e

Answer 1

It seems to me that the easiest way to do this and sidestep the multithreading problems would be to set a kill flag from the main thread, and check for it in the script-running thread just before the communication, killing the script when the flag is True.