Python - exit a text file reader if it exceeds a certain time limit

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I am trying to read many log files stored across multiple servers as part of log monitoring. usually the process takes 30-60 seconds to finish a monitoring cycle time, but if there is any issue with particular server the server log file reading takes longer than expected.

I want my program to send an alert if a particular server log file is unreadable for certain time frame and process the next one.

What approach should I take? so that the following lines cab be skipped if it takes more than the specified intervall?

What I have tried:

try:
with open(logServerFilename, 'r') as content_file:
newcontent= content_file.read()

Posted 6-Dec-18 18:48pm

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Updated 7-Dec-18 3:16am

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-07T03:16:00

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You need a timer that will interrupt your code, or a separate thread that can signal you when a number of seconds have elapsed. See threading — Thread-based parallelism — Python 3.7.1 documentation[^] and threading — Timer[^].

Posted 7-Dec-18 3:16am

Richard MacCutchan