A better way to timeout a class method?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Marco Mariani <marco at sferacarta.com> wrote:
>  John O'Hagan wrote:
> 
> > Is there a concise Pythonic way to write a method with a timeout?
> 
>  No need for threading. Just define a signal handler and call signal.alarm().
> 
>  See the example at the end of the page:
> 
>  http://docs.python.org/library/signal.html

Won't work on windows and there is only one sigalarm timer, so you
can't nest them :-(

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