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Easy Timeouts in Python (works on Unix)
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| import signal | |
| class timeout: | |
| def __init__(self, seconds=1, error_message='Timeout'): | |
| self.seconds = seconds | |
| self.error_message = error_message | |
| def handle_timeout(self, signum, frame): | |
| raise TimeoutError(self.error_message) | |
| def __enter__(self): | |
| signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, self.handle_timeout) | |
| signal.alarm(self.seconds) | |
| def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): | |
| signal.alarm(0) | |
| try: | |
| with timeout(seconds=3): | |
| do_the_thing() | |
| except TimeoutError as t: | |
| print("It has a timeout error -.-") |
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