Keeping a function from taking to long--threads?

[Rene Pijlman]

<brandon.mcginty at gmail.com>:
>Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to keep a function,
>E.g. socket.gethostbyaddr("12.34.56.78"),
>>From taking to long-if it's run for more than 1 second, the function
>gethostbyaddr will be terminated?

import socket
socket.setdefaulttimeout(1)

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