Don’t fall into the trap of thinking a library should prescribe how to do everything. If you want to do something with a timeout in JavaScript, you need to use setTimeout. There is no reason why Redux actions should be any different. Redux does offer some alternative ways of dealing with asynchronous stuff, but you … Read more
Indeed rather use ExecutorService instead of Timer, here’s an SSCCE: package com.stackoverflow.q2275443; import java.util.concurrent.Callable; import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService; import java.util.concurrent.Executors; import java.util.concurrent.Future; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException; public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { ExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor(); Future<String> future = executor.submit(new Task()); try { System.out.println(“Started..”); System.out.println(future.get(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS)); System.out.println(“Finished!”); } catch (TimeoutException e) … Read more
Using module ‘subprocess’ with timeout
Using a select call is shorter, and should be much more portable import sys, select print “You have ten seconds to answer!” i, o, e = select.select( [sys.stdin], [], [], 10 ) if (i): print “You said”, sys.stdin.readline().strip() else: print “You said nothing!”
You may use the signal package if you are running on UNIX: In [1]: import signal # Register an handler for the timeout In [2]: def handler(signum, frame): …: print(“Forever is over!”) …: raise Exception(“end of time”) …: # This function *may* run for an indetermined time… In [3]: def loop_forever(): …: import time …: … Read more