From 5480493662df912f13b2d31ee217c425bef003e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joffrey F <joffrey@docker.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:00:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] signal in Client.kill can be a string containing the signal's
 name

Signed-off-by: Joffrey F <joffrey@docker.com>
---
 docker/api/container.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docker/api/container.py b/docker/api/container.py
index b591b173..9cc14dbd 100644
--- a/docker/api/container.py
+++ b/docker/api/container.py
@@ -187,7 +187,9 @@ class ContainerApiMixin(object):
         url = self._url("/containers/{0}/kill", container)
         params = {}
         if signal is not None:
-            params['signal'] = int(signal)
+            if not isinstance(signal, six.string_types):
+                signal = int(signal)
+            params['signal'] = signal
         res = self._post(url, params=params)
 
         self._raise_for_status(res)