How to stop/terminate a python script from running

Question

I wrote a program in IDLE to tokenize text files and it starts to tokeniza 349 text files! How can I stop it? How can I stop a running Python program?

Answer 1

When I have a python script running on a linux terminal, CTRL + \ works. (not CRTL + C or D)

Answer 2

Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and Task Manager will pop up. Find the Python command running, right click on it and and click Stop or Kill.

Answer 3

Control+D works for me on Windows 10. Also, putting exit() at the end also works.

Answer 4

you can also use the Activity Monitor to stop the py process

Answer 5

exit() will kill the Kernel if you're in Jupyter Notebook so it's not a good idea. raise will stop the program.

Answer 6

You can also do it if you use the exit() function in your code. More ideally, you can do sys.exit(). sys.exit() might terminate Python even if you are running things in parallel through the multiprocessing package.