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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by Donald Richmond
Donald Richmond
13,807 Points

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If you are in a Python program and are caught in an endless cycle of input requests, WHAT DO you enter to break you out of that program??? Please advise.

2 Answers

Matthew Carr
Matthew Carr
11,220 Points
Matthew Carr
Matthew Carr
11,220 Points

It depends on where you are stuck at. The first thing I would try is to hold down the Ctrl button and then hit C (Ctrl-C). If you are in a workspace, you could close the window the workspace is in, though you might lose any unsaved changes. If you have IDLE open, you can simply close the window.

After getting it closed, find out what was going on to make it happen. Maybe a while True: loop without a path to a break statement?

Donald Richmond
Donald Richmond
13,807 Points
Donald Richmond
Donald Richmond
13,807 Points

I tried Control-C. That did not work.
It was on a test program so that the problem was just a minor one. Thanks for the reply!