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 using the keyboard: Ctrl + C

To stop it using code (This has worked for me on Python 3) :

import os
os._exit(0)

you can also use:

import sys
sys.exit()

or:

exit()

or:

raise SystemExit

Answer 2

To stop your program, just press Control + C.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

If you are working with Spyder, use CTRL + . (DOT) and you will restart the kernel, also you will stop the program.

Answer 6

• 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.