Message 59787 - Python tracker

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This should be implemented differently. Users should substitute their
popen and exec calls with subprocess. The subprocess.Popen class should
gain two new methods terminate() and send_signal(int) where send_signal
is restricted to SIGKILL (+SIGTERM ?) on Windows. The idea was discussed
on the Python dev list early last year.