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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Gettings Things Gnome! - a personal organizer for the GNOME desktop
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# Copyright (c) 2008-2009 - Lionel Dricot & Bertrand Rousseau
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# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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# the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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# Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
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# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
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# this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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class Watchdog(object):
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a simple thread-safe watchdog.
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with Watchdod(timeout, error_function):
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def __init__(self, timeout, error_function):
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Just sets the timeout and the function to execute when an error occours
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@param timeout: timeout in seconds
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@param error_function: what to execute in case the watchdog timer
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self.timeout = timeout
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self.error_function = error_function
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'''Starts the countdown'''
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self.timer = threading.Timer(self.timeout, self.error_function)
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def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
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'''Aborts the countdown'''