A post in 2011 answered this question for NUnit:
How to unit test a method that runs into an infinite loop for some input?
Is there a similar TimeoutAttribute in PyUnit that I can use in the same fashion?
I did some searching and found "Duration", but that didn't seem the same.
There doesn't appear there is anything in pyunit itself, but as a work around you can roll your own. Here is how to do it using the multiprocessing package.
from functools import wraps
from multiprocessing import Process
class TimeoutError(Exception):
pass
def timeout(seconds=5, error_message="Timeout"):
def decorator(func):
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
process = Process(None, func, None, args, kwargs)
process.start()
process.join(seconds)
if process.is_alive():
process.terminate()
raise TimeoutError(error_message)
return wraps(func)(wrapper)
return decorator
Here is an example of how to use it:
import time
@timeout()
def test_timeout(a, b, c):
time.sleep(1)
@timeout(1)
def test_timeout2():
time.sleep(2)
if __name__ == '__main__':
test_timeout(1, 2, 3)
test_value = False
try:
test_timeout2()
except TimeoutError as e:
test_value = True
assert test_value