Can I stop execution of current module in ipython without leaving ipython

Question

I\'d like to break out of the currently running program and be dropped back to the shell (without having to restart ipython)

Answer 1

I had the same issue after reinstalling console2 and ipython on Windows. If you use the ipython.exe launcher, this seems to be a problem and it just closes the whole window. However, if you instead launch ipython with

python C:\python27\scripts\ipython-script.py

then it catches and handles the KeyboardInterrupt just fine and leaves me at the ipython prompt. Hooray.