Running games using functions

Question

My Code:

import threading
import time 
import subprocess
Thread1 = threading.Thread(target=Run_exe)

def run_exe():
    subproccess.call("game.exe")

while True:
   time.sleep(3600)
   x = int(input(""))
   if x==1:
      Thread1.start()
   else:
      Thread1.join()

My objective is the following:

• Run the game using the Run_exe function

• Kill thread when I exit the game

I don't want to exit game from the game itself the Python program should get an input to exit the games by killing the thread.

Answer 1

Use subprocess.Popen constructor and save the pid:

process = subprocess.Popen("game.exe")
pid = process.pid

If you want to stop the process, call: (from this answer)

import os
import signal

os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM) #or signal.SIGKILL