"Vinu Vikram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Could anybody try to tell me whether it is possible to run a > function only > for a particular time period. In my python script I call some third > party > function which some time won't give results. I would like to write > the > script in such a way that, it will wait for the result from this > function > for some time, say 10 seconds, and if it fails to get any results > within > that time (10 seconds), the script should skip that function and > stop the > program. >
I think you will need to use threading to launch your function in a separate thread. If the thread dopesn't end in time you can proceed in the main thread to kill the thread and exit the program. Read about Python threading here: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PyThreads.pdf -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
