Terminating a function

[Ian Leitch]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Astan Chee wrote:
> I was thinking of threads but I just simply want to terminate a (global)
> function after it has been running for more than 5 minutes regardless of
> state.
> I was assuming I needed threads because it can calculate time elapsed
> (that and im rather inexperienced with threads)
> Thanks again for your help!

You can use a thread to do the timing and send an interrupt when the
time is up:

#!/usr/bin/python

import thread
import threading
from time import sleep

def timer_thread():

    sleep(10)
    thread.interrupt_main()

def my_func():

    try:

        while 1:

            sleep(2)
            print "Hello"

    except KeyboardInterrupt:

        return

my_thread = threading.Thread(target=timer_thread)
my_thread.start()

my_func()

print "Done."
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFD9hxcefZ4eWAXRGIRAnwIAKCH/pH7dyzjk1rsfvFKzrA48GgeEACfdNx6
QmsqAruOESUe2bzPTh/nsE8=
=LvT6
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----