I’m using Eclipse on Windows, with the PyDev plugin for Python development. When I use ‘Run’ to start my application, it spawns a new Python (CPython) instance. When I use the ‘terminate’ button (red square), it kills the process. However, it appears to do a SIGKILL, so my shutdown handler is unable to clean up.
Is there any way to get Eclipse to send a SIGTERM, or simulate a keyboard interrupt (ctrl-c) from the Eclipse console?
Note: I’m aware there are other Python IDEs like Komodo or Wing that might solve this problem, but I’m not looking to switch over this.
Eclipse uses the Java Process API which sends the signal. This is a native API and there is no way to change that. I assume that you’ve tried to install a handler for SIGKILL, too, and that didn’t work.
Therefore, the only solution would be to write a small batch file which lists the processes and sends SIGTERM to one of them. Invoke that from a command prompt. If you use Alt-Tab to switch to it, it’s almost as comfortable as doing it from inside Eclipse.
Or write a plugin to invoke batch files.