In Python 2.5, how do I kill a subprocess?

Question

I am using the subprocess package in Python to run a subprocess, which I later need to kill. However, the documentation of the subprocess package states that the terminate()

Answer 1

Thats a copy&pase complete solution:

def terminate_process(pid):
    # all this shit is because we are stuck with Python 2.5 and 
    # we cannot use Popen.terminate()
    if sys.platform == 'win32':
        import ctypes
        PROCESS_TERMINATE = 1
        handle = ctypes.windll.kernel32.OpenProcess(PROCESS_TERMINATE, False, pid)
        ctypes.windll.kernel32.TerminateProcess(handle, -1)
        ctypes.windll.kernel32.CloseHandle(handle)
    else:
        os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)

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