cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM?

[Ulli Horlacher]

Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:

> Correct. The timer callback function (hello) would be called in a
> separate thread. An exception raised in one thread cannot be caught in
> the main thread. In general, there is no way for a thread to interrupt a
> sibling thread that is in a blocking function call.

Then threading.Timer is not a solution for my problem.

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