I agree that pretty much any solution you can get for the command line would have to rely on AppleScript. And your solution will work. However, rather than scripting System Events, which depends on UI events (actually moving your mouse and clicking) it's a much cleaner approach to script the application's window directly.
This way, if you move your mouse while the script is executing, it won't affect it. For minimizing all Firefox windows you could do something like:
tell application "Firefox" to set miniaturized of every window to true
The property is called miniaturized for Firefox and most OS X applications, but some third-party apps, like Google Chrome, call the property minimized, so if one doesn't work, the other should. This functionality is part of the Standard Suite that pretty much every AppleScript-able application has.
For applications that don't support AppleScript at all, you can fall back to your approach and use System Events to access the windows belonging to the application's specific process running on your machine.
If I were you, though, I'd try to rely on the application to minimize itself rather than through System Events where possible, as this will be much more reliable.
You should be able to run the command sudo killall Python.
You need to run as root because Python belongs to root, not the user.
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press shift + s. This will bring up:
At this point you can just press return for a 'polite' process end request ("signal 15") that will let the process clean up files, release memory, etc. For process that can't be killed this way, you can enter the word ‘kill’ which is signal "9" then press return.
Now top prompts for a pid (process id):
Enter the pid of the process you want to kill and that should take care of it.