impossible to exit debugger traces

I like to set traces, and from what I understand from the docs, The Right Way is to use TerminalPdb. However, I can not find out how to quit the TerminalPdb debugger—maybe I’m just daft. Say I set a trace in a long loop:

from IPython.terminal.debugger import TerminalPdb
pdb = TerminalPdb()

while True:
    pdb.set_trace()

The only way to exit this program that I found is to kill it.

My questions are:

• Is TerminalPdb the best way to set traces?
• Is this expected behavior?
• How do I quit?

Thanks!

(I’m on IPython 5.1.0)

[alex-git-rd]

I’m on IPython 6.4, Python 3.6.6 and I’m still getting this issue. Specifically, if I do any .groupby("col").apply(f) in pandas for some function f that has a set_trace(), ipdb doesn’t let me quit by typing q but rather keeps re-running to the next iteration.

[sizhky]

Use exit()