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interruptingcow
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Interruptingcow is a generic utility that can relatively gracefully interrupt your Python code when it doesn't execute within a specific number of seconds::
from interruptingcow import timeout
try:
with timeout(5, exception=RuntimeError):
# perform a potentially very slow operation
pass
except RuntimeError:
print "didn't finish within 5 seconds"
Timeouts are specified in seconds (as floats with theoretical microsecond precision).
::
$ pip install interruptingcow
Interruptingcow is fully reentrant, which means that you can have nested timeouts::
from interruptingcow import timeout
class Outer(RuntimeError): pass
class Inner(RuntimeError): pass
try:
with timeout(20.0, Outer):
try:
with timeout(1.0, Inner):
# some expensive operation
try_the_expensive_thing()
except Inner:
do_the_cheap_thing_instead()
except Outer:
print 'Program as a whole failed to return in 20 secs'
Nested timeouts allow a large outer timeout to contain smaller timeouts. If the inner timeout is larger than the outer timeout, it is treated as a no-op.
Interruptingcow can be used both as inline with-statements, as shown in the above examples, as well as function decorator::
from interruptingcow import timeout
@timeout(.5)
def foo():
with timeout(.3):
# some expensive operation
pass
You can allocate a quota of time and then share it across multiple invocations
to timeout()
. This is especially useful if you need to use timeouts inside
a loop::
from interruptingcow import timeout, Quota
quota = Quota(1.0)
for i in something:
try:
with timeout(quota, RuntimeError):
# perform a slow operation
pass
except RuntimeError:
# do a cheaper thing instead
Here the first iterations of the loop will be able to perform the expensive operation, until the shared quota of 1 second runs out and then the remaining iterations will perform the cheaper alternative.
A single quota instance can also be shared across all calls to timeout()
your application makes (including nested calls), to give place an upper bound
on the total runtime, regardless of how many calls to timeout()
you have.
Interruptingcow uses signal(SIGALRM)
to let the operating system interrupt
program execution. This has the following limitations:
SIGALRM
itself (this
includes certain profilers)FAQs
A watchdog that interrupts long running code.
We found that interruptingcow demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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