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

Ctrl-Break it is more powerful than Ctrl-C

Answer 2

you can also use the Activity Monitor to stop the py process

Answer 3

To stop your program, just press CTRL + D

or exit().

Answer 4

Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and Task Manager will pop up. Find the Python command running, right click on it and and click Stop or Kill.