Stop Sublime Text from executing infinite loop

Question

When I do something like

while True:
    print(\'loop\')

and execute that code in sublime I am not able to stop it. I have to manually kill

Answer 1

You have a couple of options here. You could set a huge maximum number of iterations (I actually do this with most while loops until I've completely debugged my code, to avoid infinite loop pains): So for example

max_iterations = 100000000
while i < max_iterations:
   print("Hello World")

An alternative would be using time module to clock the execution time of your code like this

import time
max_execution_time = 10000000 #this will be in seconds
start_time = time.clock()
elapsed_time = 0   
while elapsed_time < max_execution_time:
    elapsed_time = time.clock() = start_time
    #Your loop code here