If you want to tweak this, it might be helpful to look at the signal module in python, which is presumably what the above alarm function uses; a helpful example is at:
http://docs.python.org/lib/node545.html ...and the parent documentation to that has all the details. -M. Hampton On May 26, 6:54 pm, Andrey Novoseltsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, that's exactly what I need! > > Andrey > > On May 26, 4:46 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Is there any way to automatically terminate the current computation if > > > it takes longer than given amount of time (say, a minute)? I want it > > > to be inside a loop that will stop some iterations and continue, if > > > they are taking too long. > > > Yes, I wrote something to do this a long time ago. > > Use the alarm command: > > > {{{id > > alarm(3) > > for i in range(10): > > print i > > sleep(1) > > /// > > > 0 > > 1 > > 2 > > Traceback (most recent call last): sleep(1) > > File "/Users/was/s/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sympy/plotting/", > > line 3, in <module> > > > File "/Users/was/s/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/misc/misc.py", > > line 1345, in __mysig > > raise KeyboardInterrupt, "computation timed out because alarm was > > set for %s seconds"%__alarm_time > > KeyboardInterrupt: computation timed out because alarm was set for 3 seconds > > > }}}- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
