timeoutcontext 1.0.0

A signal based timeout context manager

A signal based timeout context manager and decorator.

Usage

As a context manager:

from timeoutcontext import timeout, TimeoutException
from time import sleep

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

As a decorator:

from timeoutcontext import timeout, TimeoutException
from time import sleep

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

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

License

• Free software: BSD license

History

1.0.0 (2016-01-23)

• First release on PyPI.