BBands schrieb: > I have a Python ap that needs current stock prices, which I want to get > from eSignal's DDE server. Following the win32all example: > > import win32ui > import dde > server = dde.CreateServer() > server.Create("eSignalDDE") > conversation = dde.CreateConversation(server) > conversation.ConnectTo("WINROS", "Last") > last = conversation.Request("$spx") > print last > > Which almost works. The return in PythonWin is the correct price as a > string with some extra chartacters appended. > > '1402.670000000000\x00\x12\x00*\x00\x00\x004\xfb\x12\x00\xfd\x1a\xd9w4\xc1\x00' > > Any thoughts on this? > > TIA, > > jab >
Looks like a bug, either in the dde module or the dde server. But it's easy to find a workaround: >>> '1402.670000000000\x00\x12\x00*\x00\x00\x004\xfb\x12\x00\xfd\x1a\xd9w4\xc1\x00'.split("\0")[0] '1402.670000000000' >>> Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list