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

• To stop a python script just press Ctrl + C.
• Inside a script with exit(), you can do it.
• You can do it in an interactive script with just exit.
• You can use pkill -f name-of-the-python-script.