timeout error on win10 due to use of sigal.SIGALRM

[wildbill9188]

\GitHub\basketball_reference>python match_generator.py --league nba --seasons 2003-to-2017
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "match_generator.py", line 7, in
from nba import NbaBRefSeason
File "C:\Users\Bill\Documents\GitHub\basketball_reference\nba.py", line 6, in
from base import BRefMatch, BRefSeason
File "C:\Users\Bill\Documents\GitHub\basketball_reference\base.py", line 21, in
signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, timeout_handler)
AttributeError: module 'signal' has no attribute 'SIGALRM'

I looked and it seems like I'm not the first person to run into this issue, but perhaps the first to run into it on this specific project. I found a fix for the same error on a similar project ( Unity-Technologies/ml-agents@4958f04 ) but I'm struggling to implement the work-around here.

[wildbill9188]

Well, I ended up running it on an Ubuntu VM on my Win10 machine. I've been running windows via BootCamp on various macs for so long now I guess this must have been obvious for some, but when I first considered it I didnt't think the python-levenshtein package wasn't compatible w linux ... anyways hope this may help someone down the road. Thank you to the original author for creating this great tool and sharing.

Thanks again,
wildBill