How to properly stop phantomjs execution

Question

I initiated and close phantomjs in Python with the following

from selenium import webdriver    
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get(url)
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Answer 1

Please note that this will obviously cause trouble if you have several threads/processes starting PhantomJS on your machine.

I've seen several people struggle with the same issue, but for me, the simplest workaround/hack was to execute the following from the command line through Python AFTER you have invoked driver.close() or driver.quit():

pgrep phantomjs | xargs kill