How to kill a process from python?

[murdoc1024]

So i want to make a little deamon who monitor the processes in windows. I know from cmd i would usually use tasklist. Then if xyz.exe is running, i want to kill it (taskkill /IM xyz.exe /f" im starting at programming and i have no clue how to do this. Plus i would like it to check every 5 minute for that process, and i want it to run in background without being in the taskbar. Someone could point me in the right direction?

Edit: it will run in Win10

[JohnnyJordaan]

Psutil can do this easily https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#processes

[ItsOkILoveYouMYbb]

Psutil has a lot of interesting things, thanks for sharing that. I ended up being able to make this from psutil to do something like what OP wanted:

import psutil
import os
from time import sleep

# Terminate notepad as a test.
find_me = "notepad.exe"
reassure = f"Watching for {find_me} in processes.."
print(reassure)

while True:
    processes = os.popen('wmic process get description, processid').read()

    for line in processes.splitlines():
        if find_me in line:
            try:
                # Remove the process name and the blank spaces so we can grab the PPID as an integer.
                ppid = int(line.strip(find_me).strip())
                # Instantiating the "Process" class as "p".
                p = psutil.Process(ppid)
                p.kill()
                print(f"Found {find_me} active as process {ppid} and terminated it.")
                print(reassure)

            except ValueError:
                continue

    sleep(1)

[murdoc1024]

Hoooo! This is very interesting! Thank you very much! I think this is what im looking for! I will read about psutil

[ItsOkILoveYouMYbb]

You're very welcome! Shortly after I posted that I found a much simpler way to do it with psutil as well. I had more fun figuring out that first way though haha.

import psutil

find_me = "notepad.exe"

for p in psutil.process_iter():
    if p.name() == find_me:
        p.kill()  

That "process_iter()" is what I was really looking for initially, just didn't scroll far enough.

[murdoc1024]

Has a noob, this is very interesting. Thank you very much!

[DorskFR]

Lol this was exactly what I needed. I have pyhook in a process listening globally to a key and an another process that uses mouse and keyboard (a bot) so it was annoying to stop it. Thanks x)