Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > The cross-platform 3.4 asyncio module has some functions with > timeouts.
Even that doesn't forcefully interrupt an obnoxious blocking function call like time.sleep(10000) The original question claimed signal.alarm() would do the trick in Linux. However, even that cannot be relied on as "man alarm" states: sleep(3) may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm() and sleep(3) is a bad idea. I'm thinking the only portable way is to run a watchdog process with subprocess or multiprocessing. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
