Re: Is there a better way to implement this:

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:

Re: Is there a better way to implement this:

Michael Yanowitz wrote: Hello: I wrote the code below (much irrelevant code removed). This doesn't quite work. What I wanted it to do was a) Execute function ftimed, which takes a function and a timeout in seconds. b) This will also execute function abort() as a thread. This

RE: Is there a better way to implement this:

. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Benjamin Niemann Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:19 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Is there a better way to implement this: Michael Yanowitz wrote: Hello: I wrote the code below (much irrelevant

Re: Is there a better way to implement this:

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 signals: *