how to kill (or avoid) zombie processes with subprocess module

Question

When I kick off a python script from within another python script using the subprocess module, a zombie process is created when the subprocess \"completes\". I am unable to

Answer 1

The python runtime takes responsibility for getting rid of zombie process once their process objects have been garbage collected. If you see the zombie lying around it means you have kept a process object and not called wait, poll or terminate on it.