[python-win32] COM with timeouts?

[Mark Hammond]

On 10/02/2009 4:12 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have an application that's controlling Word via COM, and have
> situations where I'd like to set a timeout on those operations. Word
> might throw up an error message for example which stalls everything
> until clicked. In such a case I'd rather just give up, go and kill
> Word and start over.

If you kill the Word process, you could expect the COM RPC mechanism 
will then return from the blocked call with some exception.

Cheers,

Mark