How to terminate after traceback?

[Alex]

It would help if you showed us the script, or preferably a minimal
version that reproduces the error.

How complex are the datastructures you're manipulating?  If you have a
large, complex data structure referred to only in a local scope, then I
suppose you could get a long delay on an error while python garbage
collects that data structure.  How long have you waited, following the
error and the hanging, before killing the python process?

Alex.

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