[Twisted-Python] Timing Out Deferreds

[Ken Kinder]

James Y Knight wrote:

> No, a deferred is just a chain of callbacks -- it doesn't really make 
> sense to time out a chain of callbacks. You need to time out the 
> *source* operation that is planning on eventually calling the 
> deferred. The process of killing the source operation ought to 
> additionally cause the deferred's errback to be called.
>

That would be ideal, but the situation I'm in isn't exactly that way. I 
have a general system of scheduling tasks that doesn't really know what 
the task is, but knows it shouldn't take too long -- something like a 
crontab.