[IronPython] Time out

[Scott Holden]

I'm currently dealing with the same issue.  So far, a separate thread is the
only thing I've come up with, but Thread.Abort seems a bit drastic, and may
be hazardous to your health...  Is there a safer way?

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

>  On 23/07/2010 14:49, Saeli Mathieu wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  I'm sending this email to get more information about a specific using of
> ironPython.
> I'm working on a Silverlight 4 project and I'm using IronPython
> to execute script inside my C# code.
>
>  The main objective is to allow users to code an AI and send it into our
> application.
> The AI will use the C# we made.
> That's works fine. :)
>
>  But I want to prevent the user to create an infinite loop.
> I browsed the Online documentation but I couldn't find any information
> about "time out execution"
>
>  Func<bool> func = scope.GetVariable<Func<bool> >("MainLoop");
> this.Result = func().ToString();
>
>  this.Result will contain a string with the error of the Python Script if
> something wrong appended. ex: indentation or anything else.
>
>  but I want to make the method scope.GetVariable<>() time out if the
> script contain an infinite loop.
>
>  Does anybody know something about that ?
>
> The only way I can think of doing it is to execute the code on a different
> thread and then abort the thread if it exceeds the timeout.
>
> Michael
>
>
>  Sincerely
> --
> Saeli Mathieu.
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