cross platform alternative for signal.SIGALRM?

[Ulli Horlacher]

Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:

> I'm thinking the only portable way is to run a watchdog process with
> subprocess or multiprocessing.

How can a subprocess interrupt a function in another process?

For example: waiting for user input with a timeout.

raw_input("Hit ENTER to continue or wait 10 s")



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