Python Console gets stuck/hanging when it's unable to execute code

I'm using PyCharm 2024.1.6 Community Edition, Runtime version 17.0.11. New to this IDE - when entering commands directly to the Python console, I'm often needing to close out and reload all my data if a line of code doesn't run. The Console pane shows >>>  followed by multiple ellipses punctuations when any additional code is entered. The lines following >>> also seem to get stuck, meaning that code that did run previously is viewable/scrollable in the Console pane only above the ‘>>>’ marks.