title: Is it possible to kill a process on Windows from within Python?
body: <p>I'm using <em>Python 2.6</em>.  Sometimes there become several instances of a certain process open, and that process causes some problems in itself.  I want to be able to programatically detect that there are multiple instances of that process and to kill them.</p>
  
  <p>For example, maybe in some cases there are 50 instances of make.exe open.  I want to be able to tell that there are 20 instances open, and to kill them all.  How is this accomplished?</p>