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I followed this solution.

I am trying to set timeout seconds to my function during runtime, which gives me flexibility to pass different timeout seconds without even opening a script.(test.py)

timeout.py

from functools import wraps
import errno
import os
import signal


class TimeoutError(Exception):
    pass


def timeout(seconds=60, error_message=(os.strerror(errno.ETIMEDOUT)).upper()):
    def decorator(func):
        def _handle_timeout(signum, frame):
            raise TimeoutError(error_message)

        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
            signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, _handle_timeout)
            #print "Timeout seconds =: " , seconds
            signal.alarm(seconds)
            try:
                result = func(*args, **kwargs)
            finally:
                signal.alarm(0)
            return result

       return wraps(func)(wrapper)
   return decorator

main.py (just takes whatever parameter passed during runtime)

import test
if __name__ == '__main__':
    args1=sys.argv[1]
    args2=sys.argv[2]
    time_sec = sys.argv[3] 

    test.func(args1,arg2,time_sec)

test.py

from timeout import timeout
from timeout import TimeoutError

#@timeout(30)
@timeout()      #<--here i want to pass timeout_sec
def func(args1,args2,timeout_sec):
     #do something

To run this:

 python main.py abc abc 45   #this overrids seconds from timeout.py

In test.py timeout() or timeout(30) will work, but is there any way to make it dynamic and get the seconds passed as "arg3" in @timeout(arg3)

Is there any way i can achieve this?

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