You can kill a process by kill command. But have you thought what would happen to the process which is runing if you issue kill command? It will do something nasty in between if you do not handle the kill signal gracefully. If you are writing to a file, it will
corrupt the file, if you are sending RPC messages, you will break the process in between and drop all messages.

To handle signal you can use signal python module. A sample of the signal handling is created as a gist in github below:

- https://gist.github.com/alirezastack/ae4e12a21ccb91264b69e1d14a53c044

The above method will handle SIGINT, SIGTERM and end the loop gracefully.

To test it you can run the script in terminal and then try to find the pid number of the process and finally kill it:

sudo kill 4773

The above command will issue SIGTERM and script will handle it gracefully. SIGINT on the other hand is issued when you press CTRL+C.

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