Why doesn't this python keyboard interrupt work? (in pycharm)

Question

My python try/except loop does not seem to trigger a keyboard interrupt when Ctrl + C is pressed while debugging my code in pycharm. My code look like this:

Answer 1

PyCharm's Python Console raises the exception console_thrift.KeyboardInterruptException on Ctrl-C instead of KeyboardInterrupt. The exception console_thrift.KeyboardInterruptException is not a subclass of KeyboardInterrupt, therefore not caught by the line except KeyboardInterrupt.

Adding the following lines would make your script compatible with PyCharm.

try:
    from console_thrift import KeyboardInterruptException as KeyboardInterrupt
except ImportError:
    pass

This would not break compatibility with running the script in a terminal, or other IDE, like IDLE or Spyder, since the module console_thrift is found only within PyCharm.