On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:23 AM, dieter <die...@handshake.de> wrote: > If what you want to timeout are not I/O operations, you can have a > look at "threading.Timer". It uses a separate thread, lets it wait > a specified time and then starts a specified function, unless > "cancel"ed. >
Ooh, hadn't considered that. That would seem to do the trick. I assume the function to be executed will be run in the timer's thread, so will have to suitably lock any shared data. Thx, Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
