[sage-support] Re: Time limit for computation

2008-05-26 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
Thank you, that's exactly what I need! Andrey On May 26, 4:46 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to automatically terminate the current computation if it takes longer than given amount of

[sage-support] Re: Time limit for computation

2008-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to automatically terminate the current computation if it takes longer than given amount of time (say, a minute)? I want it to be inside a loop that will stop some iterations and continue, if they

[sage-support] Re: Time limit for computation

2008-05-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
If you want to tweak this, it might be helpful to look at the signal module in python, which is presumably what the above alarm function uses; a helpful example is at: http://docs.python.org/lib/node545.html ...and the parent documentation to that has all the details. -M. Hampton On May 26,