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Code won't stop running

I have gone as far as deleting the program file. It (something) is still running and using up my CPU time.

Axle718 | 5 posts | April 18, 2023, 8:10 p.m. | permalink

How are you running the code?

Staff glenn | 9498 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | April 19, 2023, 9:15 a.m. | permalink

As a Scheduled Task that starts once a day and runs until I manually stop it. The code sleeps ( time.sleep(120) ) the majority of it's running time. Running processes always show 'Nothing running'. Running processes 'Refresh' icon seems to do nothing.

Axle718 | 5 posts | April 19, 2023, 4:41 p.m. | permalink

I managed to get it stopped today by adding ( os._exit(0) ) to the code and then saving the file. I suspect that 'Running processes' does not detect that my code is running while it is 'sleeping'.

Axle718 | 5 posts | April 19, 2023, 5:12 p.m. | permalink

The running process list on the Consoles page does not show tasks process. The running processes list on the Tasks page does.

Staff glenn | 9498 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | April 19, 2023, 5:24 p.m. | permalink

I understand now. Thank you.

Axle718 | 5 posts | April 19, 2023, 6:51 p.m. | permalink