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

driver.quit() did not work for me on Windows 10, so I ended up adding the following line right after calling driver.close():

os.system('taskkill /f /im phantomjs.exe')

where

/f = force
/im = by image name

And since this is a Windows only solution, it may be wise to only execute if os.name == 'nt'