I’m looking for a way for a function to take actions based on how long it has been executing. For example, my function would loop continuously until 5 seconds has elapsed, in which case it returns immediately. Any suggestions?
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I’m looking for a way for a function to take actions based on how long it has been executing. For example, my function would loop continuously until 5 seconds has elapsed, in which case it returns immediately. Any suggestions?
Another option is to use signal.alarm() with an appropriate signal handler, documented at http://docs.python.org/library/signal.html. A particular advantage to this approach is not having to check the time every time you loop, which may add significant overhead for small, tight loops.