Basic functionality and API call to ESV.org is complete along with the parsing of the returned object to something more presentable.

timeout.py

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+import errno
+import os
+import signal
+import functools
+
+class TimeoutError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+def timeout(seconds=10, error_message=os.strerror(errno.ETIME)):
+    def decorator(func):
+        def _handle_timeout(signum, frame):
+            raise TimeoutError(error_message)
+
+        @functools.wraps(func)
+        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+            signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, _handle_timeout)
+            signal.alarm(seconds)
+            try:
+                result = func(*args, **kwargs)
+            finally:
+                signal.alarm(0)
+            return result
+
+        return wrapper
+
+    return decorator