Killing a script launched in a Process via os.system()

Question

I have a python script which launches several processes. Each process basically just calls a shell script:

from multiprocessing import Process
import os
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Answer 1

In Python 3.3, the subprocess module supports a timeout: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/subprocess.html

For other solutions regarding Python 2.x, please have a look in this thread: Using module 'subprocess' with timeout