Keeping a function from taking to long--threads?

[brandon.mcginty at gmail.com]

Thanks, however, I forgot to mention that I'm using windows, and from what
I've tried, the setdefaulttimeout function doesn't work on my machine.
Again, thanks for your help!
Brandon McGinty


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> <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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