_pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <function mytest at 0x000001FACD58FC80>: it's not the same object as __main__.mytest

[hingston]

Using the example given:

import time
import timeout_decorator


@timeout_decorator.timeout(5, use_signals=False)
def mytest():
    print("Start")
    for i in range(1, 10):
        time.sleep(1)
        print("%d seconds have passed" % i)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    mytest()

I receive:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Will/PycharmProjects/tests/timeout.py", line 15, in <module>
    mytest()
  File "C:\Users\Will\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\timeout_decorator\timeout_decorator.py", line 91, in new_function
    return timeout_wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Will\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\timeout_decorator\timeout_decorator.py", line 146, in __call__
    self.__process.start()
  File "C:\Users\Will\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 105, in start
    self._popen = self._Popen(self)
  File "C:\Users\Will\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\multiprocessing\context.py", line 223, in _Popen
    return _default_context.get_context().Process._Popen(process_obj)
  File "C:\Users\Will\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\multiprocessing\context.py", line 322, in _Popen
    return Popen(process_obj)
  File "C:\Users\Will\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\multiprocessing\popen_spawn_win32.py", line 65, in __init__
    reduction.dump(process_obj, to_child)
  File "C:\Users\Will\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\multiprocessing\reduction.py", line 60, in dump
    ForkingPickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)
_pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <function mytest at 0x000001FACD58FC80>: it's not the same object as __main__.mytest

System info:

Windows 10
Python 3.6.3
timeout-decorator 0.4.0

[hingston]

There's a working solution in #37 as a temporary work around for anyone else who finds this.

[bitranox]

You can use my fork - https://github.com/bitranox/wrapt-timeout-decorator
there it works fine, I just tested ...
Yours sincerely
Robert