Add ability to specify what exception gets raised

 - Add keyword argument to decorator that allows the user to specify what
   exception is raised when the timeout is triggered
 - Bump version to 0.3.3

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 5573180..e04b76c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,23 @@ Usage
     if __name__ == '__main__':
         mytest()
 
+Specify an alternate exception to raise on timeout:
+
+::
+
+    import time
+    import timeout_decorator
+
+    @timeout_decorator.timeout(5, timeout_exception=StopIteration)
+    def mytest():
+        print "Start"
+        for i in range(1,10):
+            time.sleep(1)
+            print "%d seconds have passed" % i
+
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        mytest()
+
 Multithreading
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