On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:27 PM, D. S. McNeil <dsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:47 PM, tvn <nguyenthanh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a timeout mechanism in Sage or Python that allows me to kill or
>> raise an exception on a command that exceeds some time threshold ?
>
> You probably want "alarm", which raises a KeyboardInterrupt.

We should add an example of this to the tutorial or something, since
people seem to ask this exact same question every few weeks.

 -- William

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