Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
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