Timeout test hangs IDLE

[Andreas Tawn]

> On Dec 5, 6:00 am, "Andreas Tawn" <andreas.t... at ubisoft.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to integrate the timeout function from 
> herehttp://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/47
> 3878into a
> > long running automation script and the following code 
> causes IDLE after
> > 20 or 30 iterations in countTest.
> >
> > This is in 2.5, XP and there's no traceback.
> >
> > Could someone point me at the user error?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > def countTest():
> >     for i in xrange(10000000):
> >         print i
> >     return True
> >
> > def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=1, 
> default=None):
> >     import threading
> >     class InterruptableThread(threading.Thread):
> >         def __init__(self):
> >             threading.Thread.__init__(self)
> >             self.result = None
> >
> >         def run(self):
> >             try:
> >                 self.result = func(*args, **kwargs)
> >             except:
> >                 self.result = default
> >
> >     it = InterruptableThread()
> >     it.start()
> >     it.join(timeout_duration)
> >     if it.isAlive():
> >         return default
> >     else:
> >         return it.result
> >
> > def runTest():
> >     timeout(countTest, timeout_duration=5)
> >
> > if __name__ == "__main__":
> >     runTest()
> 
> I'm confused. What does it cause IDLE to do? I tried running the
> script and it ran fine. I killed it 17346 since I have no intention of
> letting it tie up my work for your extraordinary large iteration
> number.
> 
> I'm using Python 2.4 on Windows XP.
> 
> Mike

Sorry, I need a better proof-reader.

When I run that code, the output gets to ~26 and then IDLE (or the
shell, I'm not sure which) hangs and there's  zero CPU activity in the
pythonw.exe process.