Stop Sublime Text from executing infinite loop

Question

When I do something like

while True:
    print(\'loop\')

and execute that code in sublime I am not able to stop it. I have to manually kill

Answer 1

Just type CTRL+C key on MacOS.

Answer 2

Just follow this in case you are using Sublime Text 3, go to Preferences > Package Settings > Alignment > Key Bindings-User

[
    { "keys": ["ctrl+n"], "command": "cancel_build" }
]

Now, by pressing ctrl+n, the execution will immediately stop. Of course, you can change the combination to whatever you want (In place of ctrl+n).

Answer 3

The combination is ctrl+break.

In Windows there is no break button, so you can go to Preferences > Key Bindings and to the user side add this:

{ "keys" : ["ctrl+c"], "command": "cancel_build"}

Now, by pressing Ctrl+C the execution will stop. Of course, you can change the combination to whatever you want.

Answer 4

You have a couple of options here. You could set a huge maximum number of iterations (I actually do this with most while loops until I've completely debugged my code, to avoid infinite loop pains): So for example

max_iterations = 100000000
while i < max_iterations:
   print("Hello World")

An alternative would be using time module to clock the execution time of your code like this

import time
max_execution_time = 10000000 #this will be in seconds
start_time = time.clock()
elapsed_time = 0   
while elapsed_time < max_execution_time:
    elapsed_time = time.clock() = start_time
    #Your loop code here

Answer 5

For me (on Linux), there is no break key on the keyboard and this shortcut was somehow bound to a different combination: ctrl+alt+c.

You can find where it is bound in the Tools menu:

After interrupting your script you should see the text [Cancelled] printed to the sublimetext console.

Answer 6

For MacOS:

cmd + option + esc

to force quit