How to Stop a Python Script with a Keyboard Interrupt | Python Tutorial

Terminate a Python Script by using the Keyboard Interrupt CTRL+C! End While Loops, For Loops, or a general script by adding try except to enable your keyboard to kill the script! Quick n' easy.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:21 Edit your Script (add try and except)
1:20 Example

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[Vanfurion]

OMG this was exactly what i searched for.
Thank u soo much <3

[pulse]

It's been around 10 months since this was posted and I don't expect a reply but I would like one. In my program for me to finish the try statement it takes around 1 minute. Since the "except" doesn't get registered until after the "try" has been finished, the program still runs for a few extra seconds. There is a way where I can keyboard interrupt and then tab into PyCharm to manually stop it even though there are extra seconds but I want to know if there is a way to stop the program even with a few extra seconds with a keypress while tabbed out of PyCharm.

[thewildhuli]

Yo i know that this is a bit late but is there any way to end the script out side of the python window? I am making a scipt that moves your mouse around and from the desktop ctrl + c dosen't work. Any fixes? If so thanks

[imlg]

Just found out and thought I would share this, in pycharm you can install the keyboard library, then import keyboard and do
if keyboard.is_pressed(' ') you can put the key you want in the bracket
break

[godman]

I know there’s a few error handling methods with the try function, good to know that you can handle keyboard interruptions

[PaulLebow]

Ctrl-C doesn't seem to work in the Spyder IDE. Just ignored.

[AM-jwlo]

This is so irritating, I search and keep having to look at video's that tell what i already know, I think what most people want is a way to program an keyboard stop program. say like i have a stopwatch and want stop and restart. Perhaps i will search for that and quit seenig what info is already out there a million times.