To stop a running program, use Ctrl + C to terminate the process. To handle it programmatically in python, import the sys module and use sys.exit() where you want to terminate the program.

also sys.exit () will terminate all python scripts, but quit () only terminates the script which spawned it. David C. Over a year ago Do you know if this command works differently in python …

Jan 26, 2010 · The Python docs indicate that os._exit () is the normal way to end a child process created with a call to os.fork (), so it does have a use in certain circumstances.

The Python library reference explicitly states that those functions should only be used in the interactive interpreter and in programs. Doesn't work in scripts. It works at least in the version …

Jan 13, 2009 · I need to stop my program when an exception is raised in Python. How do I implement this?

May 17, 2018 · However I want to stop the execution of the script so I have tried with Ctrl+C but the program is still running in the integrated terminal of Visual Studio Code.

Sep 24, 2019 · I'm running a python flask server locally by clicking the run button in VS Code (provided by the Code Runner extension). How do I stop the server without closing and …

I have a Python script that uses threads and makes lots of HTTP requests. I think, while a HTTP request (using urllib2) is reading, it's blocking and not responding to Ctrl + C to stop the …

May 20, 2022 · You could call the built-in quit() function. If/when you modularize your code into functions, this could be done with a return call. The quit() function will basically tell the program …

Feb 9, 2015 · I would like to know if there is a way of programatically stopping a python script execution without killing the process like we do with this code: import sys sys.exit() It would be …