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Enables to run subprocess commands in a different thread with TIMEOUT option!
#! /usr/bin/env python
import threading
import subprocess
import traceback
import shlex
class Command(object):
"""
Enables to run subprocess commands in a different thread with TIMEOUT option.
Based on jcollado's solution:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1191374/subprocess-with-timeout/4825933#4825933
"""
command = None
process = None
status = None
output, error = '', ''
def __init__(self, command):
if isinstance(command, basestring):
command = shlex.split(command)
self.command = command
def run(self, timeout=None, **kwargs):
""" Run a command then return: (status, output, error). """
def target(**kwargs):
try:
self.process = subprocess.Popen(self.command, **kwargs)
self.output, self.error = self.process.communicate()
self.status = self.process.returncode
except:
self.error = traceback.format_exc()
self.status = -1
# default stdout and stderr
if 'stdout' not in kwargs:
kwargs['stdout'] = subprocess.PIPE
if 'stderr' not in kwargs:
kwargs['stderr'] = subprocess.PIPE
# thread
thread = threading.Thread(target=target, kwargs=kwargs)
thread.start()
thread.join(timeout)
if thread.is_alive():
self.process.terminate()
thread.join()
return self.status, self.output, self.error
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onkar27 commented Jul 3, 2017

Solution.java is

class Solution{
      public static void main(String [] args){ 
              do
                    System.out.println("Helloo");
              while(true);
      }
}

and

command = Command("java Solution")
print command.run(timeout=1, shell=True ,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

Timeout does not works !

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