How can you identify and stop a hanging Python process with a single action?

To identify and stop a hung Python process with a single action, you can use the pkill command with the process name option and a termination signal. For example, in Unix systems:

pkill -9 -f python

Here, -f searches for the process by the full command name, and -9 sends the SIGKILL signal, which forcibly terminates the process.

If you need to first find the hung process, you can use ps and grep, then kill:

ps aux | grep python
kill -9 <PID>

For automation, you can write a script that checks the process runtime and terminates it if it exceeds a threshold. But for quick action, pkill is the simplest way.