Windows – Powershell: start and stop flask server

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I wrote a powershell script to start my flask server, run my tests then stop my server. It starts the server and runs my tests. However, when it kills the $server process, it leaves the actual server process running and I can see the window for this process still open. How can I kill the server after the tests finish running?

$db_id = [guid]::NewGuid().ToString()
$env:AUTHZ_DB_FILE = 'Authorization ' + $db_id
$server = Start-Process py -ArgumentList '-m', 'authz.test.server' -PassThru 

Write-Output $server.Id

py -m authz.test.tests $args

Stop-Process -Id $server.Id

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Try

Stop-Process -Id $server.Id -Force

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When running this simple test:

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I would look for other reasons why your 'Log("End");' does not work.

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