def shutdown(self):
        '''
        send SIGTERM to the tagger child process
        '''
        if self._child:
            try:
                self._child.terminate()
            except OSError, exc:
                if exc.errno == 3:
                    ## child is already gone, possibly because it ran
                    ## out of memory and caused us to shutdown
                    pass
def shutdown ( self ) : if self . _child : try : self . _child . terminate ( ) except OSError , exc : if exc . errno == 3 : pass
send SIGTERM to the tagger child process