How can I stop a particular cell from running in google colab?

Question

If a cell is taking too long to run (for example, if it has code to train the model in deep learning) , how can I stop it from running in Google Colab.

Answer 1

Press the stop button, or select the 'Interrupt execution' item from the Runtime menu.

Keep in mind that some code cannot be interrupted. (For example, if you're using a C library stuck in a syscall.) In these cases, you can restart your Python process by selecting 'Restart runtime...' from the Runtime menu.

Answer 2

If you have a multi-cell file running and you need to stop a particular cell from running. Follow this:

Select the code from the google colab cell of interest.

Use ctrl + x to cut the code from the cell (or copy). Delete the cell (this stops the code from executing).

Now, create a new cell and paste the code you just copied.