Can I stop execution of current module in ipython

Question

I'd like to break out of the currently running program and be dropped back to the shell (without having to restart ipython)

Answer 1

Control-C works in the normal interactive Python shell, it should work in ipy also (except the program is catching the keyboardInterrupt exception)

Answer 2

I had the same issue after reinstalling console2 and ipython on Windows. If you use the ipython.exe launcher, this seems to be a problem and it just closes the whole window. However, if you instead launch ipython with

python C:\python27\scripts\ipython-script.py

then it catches and handles the KeyboardInterrupt just fine and leaves me at the ipython prompt. Hooray.

Answer 3

Kind of a jenky method but I can often quit a process without exiting ipython by typing something like: ']='. It creates a syntax error, terminating the process and, thereby, returning you to the ipython shell.

Answer 4

For the current version of IPython(Jupyter), you can simply click on Interrupt option under kernel tab.