Question

Does anyone know a good solution for implementing a function similar to Ruby’s timeout in Python? I’ve googled it and didn’t really see anything very good. Thanks for the help.

Here’s a link to the Ruby documentation http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/timeout/rdoc/index.html

Answer 1

def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=1, default=None):     import threading     class InterruptableThread(threading.Thread):         def __init__(self):             threading.Thread.__init__(self)             self.result = None          def run(self):             try:                 self.result = func(*args, **kwargs)             except:                 self.result = default      it = InterruptableThread()     it.start()     it.join(timeout_duration)     if it.isAlive():         return default     else:         return it.result 

from:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473878/