How to stop a Python script running in the background on Windows 10?

Question

i'm currently doing pyautogui with python, so i created a script in notepad like this-

import pyautogui

numberdecider = "aa"

for char in numberdecider:
  pyautogui.write("Hello World!", interval=2.0)

So I went in command prompt and I wrote

pythonw script.py

Which ran my script in the background. What command should I use to stop this script using cmd because now whenever I try to type something it keeps typing "Hello World." in between.

Answer 1

Try adding sys.exit for keyboard interrupt like this:

import sys
import pyautogui

try:
   numberdecider = "aa"

   for char in numberdecider:
      pyautogui.write("Hello World!", interval=2.0)

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    sys.exit()

When you press ctrl+c in cmd it should stop the script.