Equivalent of alarm(3600) in Python

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Published on 2010-06-01T09:09:22Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 9:13 UTC
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Starting a Perl script with alarm(3600) will make the script abort if it is still running after one hour (3600 seconds).

Assume I want to set an upper bound on the running time of a Python script, what is the easiest way to achieve that?

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