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 …

(Note: using exceptions for exits is a python practical work-around for C/C++/Java devs always inappropriately calling exit-- hence python programmers may not notice the stench of this code …

The Python library reference explicitly states that those functions should only be used in the interactive interpreter and not in programs. – alldayremix Commented Feb 23, 2013 at 19:54

Jan 26, 2010 · There is also an _exit() function in the os module. The sys.exit() function raises a SystemExit exception to exit the program, so try statements and cleanup code can execute. …

It turns out that as of Python 3.6, the Python interpreter handles Ctrl + C differently for Linux and Windows. For Linux, Ctrl + C would work mostly as expected. However, on Windows, Ctrl + C …

@kramer65: A program exit code of 0 means "finished without errors". Since the sys.exit call appears to be caused by an error, it should yield a program exit code that is not 0. 1 is just a …

Oct 23, 2012 · So Python is saying there's something wrong after the if statement. If you look at the other if statements, you'll notice that this one is missing the : at the end, so change it to: if …

Feb 9, 2015 · This will stop the python script execution right after running print(sys.path). Although it will print a big stack trace. But if you add the instruction sys.tracebacklimit = 1 before raise …

Jul 1, 2015 · I have a python script that uses plt.show() as it's last instruction. When it runs, IDLE just hangs after the last instruction. I get the image but I don't get the prompt back. On other …

Jul 31, 2010 · Possible Duplicates: Programatically stop execution of python script? Terminating a Python script I want to print a value, and then halt execution of the script.