[pyar] Ejecutando procesos.

[Esteban Kuber]

> Un ejemplo ? :D

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/492519/timeout-on-a-python-function-call/492644#492644


def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=10, default=None):
    """This function will spawn a thread and run the given function
    using the args, kwargs and return the given default value if the
    timeout_duration is exceeded.
    """
    import threading
    class InterruptableThread(threading.Thread):
        def __init__(self):
            threading.Thread.__init__(self)
            self.result = default
        def run(self):
            self.result = func(*args, **kwargs)
    it = InterruptableThread()
    it.start()
    it.join(timeout_duration)
    if it.isAlive():
        return it.result
    else:
        return it.result