Cross-platform time out decorator

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Sep 26, 5:21 am, Joel <joel.schae... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using this nice timing out decorator :http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/307871. The
> problem is that since it relies on sigalarm, it doesn't work under
> windows. Would anyone know how to do a cross-platform version?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> joel

You might be able to use the timeit module.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-timeit.html

Some people like to use hotshot:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2005/12/15/profiling.html

I doubt this is what you're looking for, but maybe it'll give you a
push in the right direction.

Mike