interruptingcow A watchdog that interrupts long running code
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interruptingcow is a generic Python utility that can relatively gracefully interrupt your code when it doesn't execute within a specific number of seconds:from interruptingcow import timeouttry: with timeout(5): # perform a potentially very slow operation passexcept RuntimeError: print "didn't finish within 5 seconds"Installation pip install interruptingcowCaveatsInterruptingcow uses signal(SIGALRM) to let the operating system interrupt program execution. This has the following limitations:1. Python signal handlers only apply to the main thread, so you cannot use this from other threads2. You must not use this in a program that uses SIGALRM itselfProduct's homepage

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