Jacek Popławski wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am going to write python script which will read python command from
> socket, run it and return some values back to socket.
>
> My problem is, that I need some timeout. I need to say for example:
>
> os.system("someapplication.exe")
>
> and kill it, if it waits longer than let's say 100 seconds
>
> I want to call command on separate thread, then after given timeout -
> kill thread, but I realized (after reading Usenet archive) that there is
> no way to kill a thread in Python.
>
> How can I implement my script then?
>
> PS. it should be portable - Linux, Windows, QNX, etc
Probably the easiest way is to use select with a timeout (see the
docs for library module select). eg.
a, b c = select.select([mySocket], [], [], timeout)
if len(a) == 0:
print 'We timed out'
else:
print 'the socket has something for us'
Steve
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