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Hi, any script I run whether through a file console or via tasks kicks of the python3.10 -i /bin/pythonanywhere_runner.py script I can see under consoles. That script, unless I kill it manually, prevents every other script from running. I'm trying to kill it programmatically, but nothing works. In fact, a new version of that process/script is created. I can't even kill it via a separate console via command line. Any suggestions?

I'm not sure what you mean by "prevents every other script from running". Could you describe what you are doing step by step?

Oh sorry, I just saw this. Thank you. Yes I can:

Even though I set up tasks, the same thing happens when I run a file/script right from the file, which launches a console. I have a script I run that does a web search and captures what the top 10 results are to a log file. When I run the script manually or via a task, I can see in my console page under processes running python3.10 -i /bin/pythonanywhere_runner.py. This process will run for over an hour or more and eventually it must stop because my other tasks run.

But that's too long for my scripts to run effectively, because as long as that process is running, any other script, including if I try to run the same initial one again, hangs and doesn't complete. However, if I manually kill the pythonanywhere_runner.py script, then run any script, it runs fine. With that said, any script I run (let's assume its the one I first mentioned), initiates the pythonanywhere_runner.py process.

I have tried to write in functions into muy script to kill that process before running, such as the code below but I'm only able to kill the process via the Console > Process > Kill process via the website.

import os
import time
import subprocess

def kill_runner():
    process_name = "pythonanywhere_runner.py"
    timeout = 10  # Time to wait in seconds

    start_time = time.time()
    while time.time() - start_time < timeout:
        try:
            # Get all processes matching the name
            result = subprocess.check_output(["pgrep", "-fa", process_name])
            processes = result.decode().strip().split("\n")

            if not processes:
                print(f"No processes found for {process_name}")
                return

            # Kill each process found
            for process in processes:
                pid = process.split()[0]  # Extract PID
                print(f"Killing process {process_name} with PID {pid}")
                os.system(f"kill -9 {pid}")

            # Wait a short time before verifying
            time.sleep(2)

        except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
            # Process not found, break out of loop
            print(f"All {process_name} processes terminated successfully.")
            return

    print(f"Timeout reached. Could not kill all {process_name} processes.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    kill_runner()

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I think there's some confusion here -- whenever you click "Run" button in the file editing view on PythonAnywhere you will launch pythonanywhere_runner.py which is a wrapper for your script, this is how it executes. Now, why do you think this prevents your scripts from running?