Paul Boddie wrote: > Michael Yanowitz wrote: >> >> I guess I am looking for something portable (both >> Windows and Linux) where I can abort a function after >> a certain time limit expires. > > Doing a search for "timeout function Python" on Google reveals a number > of approaches. > Using threads: > > * http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/473878
That doesn't abort the calculation, however -- it just moves on with a default value instead of the actual result if that is not available after the specified timespan. The calculation may go on forever eating up resources. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
