[python-win32] DDE Timeouts

[Robert Hogan]

> what is IBM OnDemand?

mmm... it's not really relevant to the question, which could relate to any
app that takes longer than 5 seconds to respond to a dde request. But I'm
sure google would reward your curiosity...

>
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:35:57 +0100, Robert Hogan <robert.d.hogan at aib.ie>
wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm using Python's DDE with IBM OnDemand. As you can imagine queries
often
> > take a little while to return, so pythonwin's DDE hardcoded timeout of 5
> > seconds in stddde.cpp is just not enough. At the moment I'm using 'try:
> > except:' to work around it but I would prefer to increase the timeout. I
> > don't have MSVC at work or home so I can't rebuild myself. Does anyone
have
> > a build where the timeout is say > 50 secs?
> >
> > Also, why is the timeout so low in the default build?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
> >
> >
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