from threading import Thread import inspect import ctypes from functools import wraps def _async_raise(tid, exctype): """raises the exception, performs cleanup if needed""" tid = ctypes.c_long(tid) if not inspect.isclass(exctype): exctype = type(exctype) res = ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(tid, ctypes.py_object(exctype)) if res == 0: raise ValueError("invalid thread id") elif res != 1: # """if it returns a number greater than one, you're in trouble, # and you should call it again with exc=NULL to revert the effect""" ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(tid, None) raise SystemError("PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc failed") def stop_thread(thread): _async_raise(thread.ident, SystemExit) class TimeoutException(Exception): # print("timeout!") pass ThreadStop = stop_thread def time_limited(timeout): def decorator(function): @wraps(function) def wrapped_function(*args, **kwargs): class TimeLimited(Thread): def __init__(self): Thread.__init__(self) self.error = None self.result = None def run(self): self.result = function(*args, **kwargs) def stop(self): if self.is_alive(): ThreadStop(self) t = TimeLimited() t.start() t.join(timeout) if isinstance(t.error, TimeoutException): t.stop() raise TimeoutException('timeout for %s' % (repr(function))) if t.is_alive(): t.stop() raise TimeoutException('timeout for %s' % (repr(function))) if t.error is None: return t.result return wrapped_function return decorator