How to achieve desired results when using the subprocees Popen.send_signal(CTRL_C_EVENT) in Windows?

Question

In python 2.7 in windows according to the documentation you can send a CTRL_C_EVENT (Python 2.7 Subprocess Popen.send_signal documentation). However when I tried it I did no

Answer 1

try with

win32api.GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent(CTRL_C_EVENT, pgroupid)

or

win32api.GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent(CTRL_BREAK_EVENT, pgroupid)

references:

http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.5/pywin3/win32process_CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683155%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

read info about dwProcessGroupId, the groupid should be the same of the process id