Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Did anyone write a contextmanager implementing a timeout for > python2.5? > > I'd love to be able to write something like > > with timeout(5.0) as exceeded: > some_long_running_stuff() > if exceeded: > print "Oops - took too long!" > > And have it work reliably and in a cross platform way! > > From my experiments with timeouts I suspect it won't be possible to > implement it perfectly in python 2.5 - maybe we could add some extra > core infrastructure to Python 3k to make it possible? >
I'm guessing your question is far over my head, but if I understand it, I'll take a stab: First, did you want the timeout to kill the long running stuff? I'm not sure if its exactly what you are looking for, but I wrote a timer class that does something like you describe: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/464959 Probably you can do whatever you want upon timeout by passing the appropriate function as the "expire" argument. This works like a screen saver, etc. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
