A watchdog that interrupts long running code.
Project description
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Overview
Interruptingcow is a generic utility can relatively gracefully interrupt your Python code when it doesn’t execute within a specific number of seconds:
from interruptingcow import timeout try: with timeout(5): # perform a potentially very slow operation pass except RuntimeError: print "didn't finish within 5 seconds"
Installation
$ pip install interruptingcow
Caveats
Interruptingcow uses signal(SIGALRM) to let the operating system interrupt program execution. This has the following limitations:
Python signal handlers only apply to the main thread, so you cannot use this from other threads
You must not use this in a program that uses SIGALRM itself
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