> But, I'd like to expand this to take some generic code, not just a > shell command, and terminate it if it does not return quickly. > > @time_limiter > def generic_function(arg1, arg2, time_limit=10): > do_some_stuff() > do_some_other_stuff() > return val1, val2 > > If generic_function does not finish within 10 seconds it would stop > executing and throw an exception.
Found an answer: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary#Function_Timeout -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
