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

Windows solution: Control + C.

Macbook solution: Control (^) + C.

Another way is to open a terminal, type top, write down the PID of the process that you would like to kill and then type on the terminal: kill -9