[Twisted-Python] Timing Out Deferreds

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:31 -0600, Ken Kinder wrote:

> 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.

How about having registration of a task also require a cancellation
function? Which can be lambda:None, if it's not possible to do so.