>> Any tips on an approach to take to interrupt a COM call or set a timeout on >> it? >> > > There's no reliable way to do that. You could, of course, spin off a > separate thread to simulate SIGALRM using time.sleep, but once you had > done so, there's no good way to stop the thread that is blocked waiting > for Word to respond. And if word has displayed a modal error box, it's > not trivial to kill it in a clean way.
Doh. I was hoping I had just missed a convenient timeout function. Killing word itself is no problem: in my scenario its okay to do so violently, as the reinitialization procedure goes through a lot of effort to clean up the newly started word instance. Soo, I'm going to try a subprocess approach. Launch a subprocess which will actually drive Word, and send messages to it in a non-blocking fashion; then I can just kill that process if the parent's timeout expires on any given action. Way more work then I was hoping to do, but hey :) Thanks. --S _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
