How do I stop tkinter after function?

The problem is that, even though you're calling print_sleep with True to stop the cycle, there's already a pending job waiting to fire. Pressing the stop button won't cause a new job to fire but the old job is still there, and when it calls itself, it passes in False which causes the loop to continue.

You need to cancel the pending job so that it doesn't run. For example:

def cancel():    if self._job is not None:        root.after_cancel(self._job)        self._job = Nonedef goodbye_world():    print "Stopping Feed"    cancel()    button.configure(text = "Start Feed", command=hello_world)def hello_world():    print "Starting Feed"    button.configure(text = "Stop Feed", command=goodbye_world)    print_sleep()def print_sleep():    foo = random.randint(4000,7500)    print "Sleeping", foo    self._job = root.after(foo,print_sleep)

Note: make sure you initialize self._job somewhere, such as in the constructor of your application object.

When you call root.after(...), it will return an identifier. You should keep track of that identifier (e.g., store it in an instance variable), and then you can later call root.after_cancel(after_id) to cancel it.

Here is my answer with only 3 lines of code added. The answer lies in using .after_cancel(x) which in simple words, mean that "stop doing 'x' job". I believe in readability of code so I made only minimal changes to your code which did the job. Please have a look. Thanks.

from tkinter import Tk, Buttonimport randomkeep_feeding = Nonedef goodbye_world():    print("Stopping Feed")    button.configure(text="Start Feed", command=hello_world)    print_sleep(True)def hello_world():    print("Starting Feed")    button.configure(text="Stop Feed", command=goodbye_world)    print_sleep()def print_sleep(cancel=False):    global keep_feeding    if not cancel:        foo = random.randint(1000, 2500)        print(f"Sleeping {foo}")        keep_feeding = root.after(foo, print_sleep)    else:        root.after_cancel(keep_feeding)        print("Feed Stopped")root = Tk()button = Button(root, text="Start Feed", command=hello_world)button.pack()root.mainloop()