How to implement a Timeout functionality in Python

Omar H.
Nerd For Tech
Published in
4 min readMay 18, 2022

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Avery common question that keeps coming up on Quora and Stack Overflow is, how to set a timeout on some function call or a thread in Python.

I wanted to sum up multiple approaches to implement such feature in one concrete article, where all suggested solutions are platform(etc.. UNIX/LINUX, Windows) independent.

I. Using Multi-threading with a…

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Omar H.
Nerd For Tech

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