how to quit a script without killing python console?

[Bo Qiang]

Hi,

I would like to pro grammatically quit a running script. I have tried quit(), exit(), sys.exit() but all of them also kill the current python console. 

Is there a way to stop running without killing python console?

Thanks

Bo

[stonebig]

there seems to be some hints on stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25928377/how-to-exit-a-script-in-spyder