right way to run some code with timeout in Python

Question

I looked online and found some SO discussing and ActiveState recipes for running some code with a timeout. It looks there are some common approaches:

• Use threa

Answer 1

An other way is to use faulthandler:

import time
import faulthandler


faulthandler.enable()


try:
    faulthandler.dump_tracebacks_later(3)
    time.sleep(10)
finally:
    faulthandler.cancel_dump_tracebacks_later()

N.B: The faulthandler module is part of stdlib in python3.3.