How does subprocess work in python?

Question

Python

I'm trying to record an audio stream, I need to implement splitting files for example by 30 minutes, I tried to do it using subprocess

subprocess.call("wget.download(url)", timeout=1800)

The download goes on but does not interrupt after the specified time. Tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks

Answer 1

timeout is the waiting time to see if a child process will appear, not the time
to kill - see, for example, here