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Message: [QUOTE="Ian Leitch, post: 1864887"] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You can use a thread to do the timing and send an interrupt when the time is up: #!/usr/bin/python import thread import threading from time import sleep def timer_thread(): sleep(10) thread.interrupt_main() def my_func(): try: while 1: sleep(2) print "Hello" except KeyboardInterrupt: return my_thread = threading.Thread(target=timer_thread) my_thread.start() my_func() print "Done." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD9hxcefZ4eWAXRGIRAnwIAKCH/pH7dyzjk1rsfvFKzrA48GgeEACfdNx6 QmsqAruOESUe2bzPTh/nsE8= =LvT6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [/QUOTE]