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A signal-based timeout context manager for Python. Current version 2.0.0. Uses OS signals to interrupt long-running operations. Updated to require Python >=3.10. Release cadence is low (major versions separated by years).

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from timeoutcontext import timeout

Basic usage: wrap long-running operations in a `with timeout(seconds)` block. Raises TimeoutError if time exceeded.

from timeoutcontext import timeout import time try: with timeout(2): time.sleep(5) print('Completed') except TimeoutError: print('Operation timed out')
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breakingVersion 2.0.0 dropped support for Python <3.10. The exception changed from `Timeout` (custom) to the built-in `TimeoutError`.
gotchaThe context manager uses SIGALRM on Unix. On Windows, signal-based timeouts are not supported; it will gracefully fall back to no timeout. Do not rely on timeout behavior on Windows.
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githubhttps://github.com/me/spam ↗
packagehttps://pypi.org/project/timeoutcontext/ ↗
docshttp://timeoutcontext.readthedocs.org/ ↗
changeloghttps://github.com/me/spam/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md ↗