How to stop long-running code in Python
Ever had long-running code that you don't know when it's going to finish running? If you have, then Python's stopit library is for you. In a previous post, we talked about how to create a progress bar to monitor Python code. This post will show you how to automatically stop long-running code with the stopit package. Getting started with stopit To get started with stopit, you can install it via pip: [code] pip install stopit [/code] In our first example, we'll use a context manager to stop the code we want to execute after a timeout limit is reached. [code lang="python"] import stopit with stopit.ThreadingTimeout(5) as context_manager: # sample code we want to run... for i in range(10**8): i = i * 2 # Did code finish running in under…