On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:07 AM, C or L Smith wrote:
>>> Serdar wrote:
> ...
>>> So again, is there a way to place a time limit on the execution of a
>>> function, after which you can break out of it and then retry it or
>>> move along with the rest of your program?
>
> At http://tinyurl.com/rbre9
>> Serdar wrote:
...
>> So again, is there a way to place a time limit on the execution of a
>> function, after which you can break out of it and then retry it or
>> move along with the rest of your program?
At http://tinyurl.com/rbre9n you can find a recipe that tells you how to
decorate a funct
Thanks to all for the responses. I've never used threading, but from
some initial googling it appears that it can indeed by tricky and
there seem to be numerous recommendations against killing threads or
processes.
I'll explore the socket request libraries mentioned by several to see
if that does
Most socket request libraries have timeouts on connection attempts, have you
looked into that already?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Serdar Tumgoren wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> Is there a way to break out of a function if it exceeds a certain time
> limit for execution?
>
> There's a Website I'm
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Serdar Tumgoren wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> Is there a way to break out of a function if it exceeds a certain time
> limit for execution?
In general this is tricky. It usually involves setting up another
thread to run or monitor the function, then somehow terminating
"Serdar Tumgoren" wrote
Is there a way to break out of a function if it exceeds a certain time
limit for execution?
Yes, you can put the call in a thread then in the main thread
start a timer. If the timer expuires before the thread returns
kill the thread.thread
There's a Website I'm
Hey everyone,
Is there a way to break out of a function if it exceeds a certain time
limit for execution?
There's a Website I'm scraping on a regular basis, and for some reason
that I can't divine the site has radically varying response times. In
some cases, I get a result vary quickly; at other t
