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import subprocess, signal, os, threading, errno
from contextlib import contextmanager
class TimeoutThread(object):
def __init__(self, seconds):
self.seconds = seconds
self.cond = threading.Condition()
self.cancelled = False
self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self._wait)
def run(self):
"""Begin the timeout."""
self.thread.start()
def _wait(self):
with self.cond:
self.cond.wait(self.seconds)
if not self.cancelled:
self.timed_out()
def cancel(self):
"""Cancel the timeout, if it hasn't yet occured."""
with self.cond:
self.cancelled = True
self.cond.notify()
self.thread.join()
def timed_out(self):
"""The timeout has expired."""
raise NotImplementedError
class KillProcessThread(TimeoutThread):
def __init__(self, seconds, pid):
super(KillProcessThread, self).__init__(seconds)
self.pid = pid
def timed_out(self):
try:
os.kill(self.pid, signal.SIGKILL) // this is for linux you need to change it for windows
except OSError,e:
# If the process is already gone, ignore the error.
if e.errno not in (errno.EPERM, errno. ESRCH):
raise e
@contextmanager
def processTimeout(seconds, pid):
timeout = KillProcessThread(seconds, pid)
timeout.run()
try:
yield
finally:
timeout.cancel()
def example(cmd):
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
//setting the timeout to be 1 sec
with processTimeout(1, proc.pid):
stdout,stderr=proc.communicate()
resultcode = proc.wait()
if resultcode < 0:
#print "error: %i" % resultcode
return resultcode,0
else:
return stdout,stderr
//This is used to create new subprocess and it will return output as well as error
output,err=example(["python",filepath,"5"])