Installation

From source code: :

python setup.py install

From pypi: :

pip install timeout-decorator

Usage

import time
import timeout_decorator 

@timeout_decorator.timeout(5)
def mytest():
    print "Start"
    for i in range(1,10):
        time.sleep(1)
        print "%d seconds have passed" % i

if __name__ == '__main__':
    mytest()

Acknowledgement

Derived from http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2010/04/using-python-timeout-decorator-uploading-s3/