execfile time out?

[Brian Blais]

Hello,


I'd like to do something like:

try:
	execfile_timeout("somefile.py",5)   # time out after 5 seconds
except TimeOutError:
	print "this timed out!"


is there something that would do this?  I'd like to call "somefile.py", but if it has 
an infinite loop, I don't want to freeze at that point.  If it helps, this part of 
the code is already running in a thread, so I guess I could time-out the thread 
rather than the execfile.  Is there an easy way to do that?


		thanks,

			Brian Blais

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