Can't kill a python process in sublime text 2

Question

I\'ve searched in a lot of places but I can\'t seem to get the keywords correct. I have a stalling process in Python in Sublime that causes the beachball of death on a Mac. I ca

Answer 1

In SublimeText3, there is a keyboard shortcut for Tools > Cancel Build: ^C. If you click down in the build log and then enter control+C, it will stop the build with the message [Cancelled].

Answer 2

I had the same issue and I just needed to handle the SIGTERM signal in my program coming from Sublime Text.

import sys, signal

def signal_handler(signal, frame):
    sys.exit(0)

signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal_handler)

There is also a bug related to this, if you start new build when the old one is still running, it only terminates the process when you print something to terminal: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1049

Answer 3

This answer is specific to python and windows. I am not sure if there is a mac equivalent.

A running python script can be terminated from the task manager. Use Ctrl+Shift+esc to open the Task Manager. Go to the processes tab and kill python.exe by simply pessing del. This would only terminate the script and leave sublime untouched.