timeoutcontext 1.2.0

A signal based timeout context manager

A signal based timeout context manager and decorator.

Since it is signal based this package can not work under Windows operating system.

Usage

As a context manager:

import sys
from time import sleep
from timeoutcontext import timeout
if sys.version_info < (3, 3):
    from timeoutcontext._timeout import TimeoutError

try:
    with timeout(1):
        sleep(2)
except TimeoutError:
    print('timeout')

As a decorator:

import sys
from time import sleep
from timeoutcontext import timeout
if sys.version_info < (3, 3):
    from timeoutcontext._timeout import TimeoutError

@timeout(1)
def wait():
    sleep(2)

try:
    wait()
except TimeoutError:
    print('timeout')

License

• Free software: BSD license

History

1.2.0 (2018-03-11)

• Allow sub-second timeout

1.1.1 (2016-09-05)

• Fix README code exemples

1.1.0 (2016-09-05)

• Add the “Not working on Windows operating system” notice

• Rename TimeoutException to TimeoutError

1.0.0 (2016-01-23)

• First release on PyPI.