You can also do it if you use the exit() function in your code. More ideally, you can do sys.exit(). sys.exit() which might terminate Python even if you are running things in parallel through the multiprocessing package. Note: In order to use the sys.exit(), you must import it: import sys
If you are using Visual Studio and you are starting the console application out of the IDE: pressing CTRL-F5 (start without debugging) will start the application and keep the console window open until you press any key.
It is generally a bad pattern to kill a thread abruptly, in Python, and in any language. Think of the following cases: the thread is holding a critical resource that must be closed properly the thread has created several other threads that must be killed as well. The nice way of handling this, if you … Read more