is there a way to start/stop linux processes with python?

Question

I want to be able to start a process and then be able to kill it afterwards

Answer 1

A simple function that uses subprocess module:

def CMD(cmd) :
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True,
                         stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                         stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                         stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                         close_fds=False)
    return (p.stdin, p.stdout, p.stderr)