timeoutcall

A package designed to kill a function after a specified amount of time.

Usage

Warning

Timeout functions are their own processes, assigning values will not do so globally. Using while True: n+=1 will not increment n globally.

Calling Functions

from timeoutcall import call
from time import sleep

def foo(n):
    time.sleep(n) # raises TimeoutError

# given that `n` is greater than `timeoutSeconds`, an exception will occur
call(target=foo, timeoutSeconds=1, err_msg="error: took too long", n=5)

Decorators

from timeoutcall import timeout
from time import sleep

@timeout(2, "error: took too long")
def foo():
    sleep(3) # will raise TimeoutError

foo()

Package Testing

$ python3 -m timeoutcall.test
$ python3 -m timeoutcall.testcall

Developers

Build and Source Distributions

To build the wheel and source distributions:

• cd into the repositories root directory
• run python3 -m build