Nov 5, 2013 · While the previous answers are helpful, they don't always work in all situations. If you have a Python-CV window open, which is waiting for a key press to quit, while running from inside vim, as a (weirdly specific) example, and you accidentally close the window normally, it will continue to run and Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z might simply print to the terminal and get ignored.

Here's the nice explanation of what is going on in the Python interpreter. Note that Ctrl+C generates SIGINT. Solution 1: Use Ctrl + Break or the equivalent. Use the below keyboard shortcuts in a terminal/console window which will generate a SIGBREAK at a lower level in the OS and terminate the Python interpreter. macOS and Linux. Ctrl + Shift+ ...

Aug 27, 2013 · Find the process id (PID) of the script and issue a kill -9 PID to kill the process unless it's running as your forground process at the terminal in which case you can Contrl-C to kill it. Find the PID with this command: ps -elf | grep python It lists all the python processes, pick out the right one and note its PID. Then . kill -9 <whatever ...

Jan 26, 2010 · done = True if done: # quit/stop/exit else: # do other stuff Essentially, I am looking for something that behaves equivalently to the 'return' keyword in the body of a function which allows the flow of the code to exit the function and not execute the remaining code.

Jan 8, 2017 · As you mentioned, ctrl+C does not work on your Windows 10 with Python 3.6, but it does work on my Windows 10 with Python 3.4. Therefore, you really need to try and see what works for you. Try the following commands, and keep the one that works: ctrl+C; ctrl+D; ctrl+Z then Return; In addition, the following should work with any terminal: exit ...

May 17, 2018 · It would be nice to be able to stop a script with the terminal still open, so you can see a 'script ended/interrupted' message in the terminal. – Theo F Commented Jun 27, 2022 at 14:10

I create connections via ssh between them. I send commands from my android app to the rpi and these commands typically run python scripts. My plan is the following: As long as my phone is in a specified radius regarding to the gps coordinates, I'd like to run python scripts. If I1m out of that radius, I'd like to stop that python script.

Keep in mind that sys.exit(), exit(), quit(), and os._exit(0) kill the Python interpreter. Therefore, if it appears in a script called from another script by execfile(), it stops execution of both scripts. See "Stop execution of a script called with execfile" to avoid this.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 then you can press ctrl + c to down the server. But if you have started the server with . python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 & or . python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 & disown you have to see the list first to kill the process, run command . ps or . ps aux | less it will show you some running process like this ..

Aug 5, 2013 · Using python in terminal on a Mac, type. ctrl-z will stop the python, but not exit it, giving output like this: >>> [34]+ Stopped python As you can see, I have stopped 34 python calls. Although I could use >>> exit() to exit python, the questions are: Is there a short-key to really exit (not just stop) python in terminal? and, why