Monday 30 May 2016

arcpy - How to manually break statement execution in Python window of ArcMap?



How does one break the execution of a long-running process in the python console of ArcMap?


For example, how do you break a long iteration like the one below once it is started?


for i in range(1, 50):
# some long process which takes over a minute to complete

I want to stop the process at any time I want by pressing a keyboard combination, clicking a button or something similar while the code I have input in the console window is running.



Answer



Just tested it and ESC doesn't work either. ArcGIS just freezes for a moment and then continues. There doesn't seem to be a way to do force quit it once it runs in the ArcGIS Python console. You can't kill it using Task Manager either as the Python process doesn't show up there.


If you really want to be able to force quit it, you might want to consider using an IDE like IDLE rather than doing it in the ArcGIS Python console. In IDLE for example, you can use Ctrl + Z or Ctrl + C to terminate the execution.


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