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## [Python Tip: How to abort a code block if its taking too long](https://forum.squirro.com/t/python-tip-how-to-abort-a-code-block-if-its-taking-too-long/68)

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**Author:** [@tonibirrer](https://forum.squirro.com/u/tonibirrer)\
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**Last updated:** [February 25, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.squirro.com/t/python-tip-how-to-abort-a-code-block-if-its-taking-too-long/68 "2022-02-25T13:03:25Z")

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Sharing a quick tip that helped me a lot the other day. Whenever you use python to integrate anything 3rd party, there is a risk that a transaction with this 3rd party API might be hanging. This happened to me recently …