[python-win32] timeout function

2010-04-07 Thread pacopyc
Hi, I'm trying to execute a function that could end never (infinite time). I'd like to set a timeout. If function respond before 30 sec ok, else go away. Can I do it? I can't find simple examples. Can you help me? Thank you ___ python-win32 mailing

Re: [python-win32] timeout function

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Golden
On 07/04/2010 14:24, pacopyc wrote: Hi, I'm trying to execute a function that could end never (infinite time). I'd like to set a timeout. If function respond before 30 sec ok, else go away. Can I do it? I can't find simple examples. Can you help me? Have a look here:

Re: [python-win32] MSI installer or zip file for pywin32?

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Janssen
Bill Janssen jans...@parc.com wrote: Mark Hammond skippy.hamm...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/04/2010 4:31 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: On 6/04/2010 4:28 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: Mark, my system is a dozen or so Python programs plus a few Windows services implemented in Python. If I set those up

Re: [python-win32] MSI installer or zip file for pywin32?

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Janssen
Bill Janssen jans...@parc.com wrote: Just for the moment, I think I'll see if I can get things working by copying the DLLs into \WINDOWS\System32\, including Python26.dll. No luck so far. I install Python privately (Just for me on the Python installer) in C:\UpLib\1.7.9\python\, and

Re: [python-win32] timeout function

2010-04-07 Thread Varun Avashia
I doubt that, I believe subprocess is the way to go. Just kick it in, sleep for some time and poll it, increment a counter and sleep again To call a function from a script with timeout, create a new python script as a thin wrapper around the function and send the timeout via command line

Re: [python-win32] MSI installer or zip file for pywin32?

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Hammond
On 8/04/2010 2:35 AM, Bill Janssen wrote: No luck so far. I install Python privately (Just for me on the Python installer) in C:\UpLib\1.7.9\python\, and unpack the pywin32 zip file in the Lib\site-packages\ subdir there. Then I copy python26.dll and the two pywin32 DLLs over to

Re: [python-win32] MSI installer or zip file for pywin32?

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Janssen
Mark Hammond skippy.hamm...@gmail.com wrote: $ python -i Python 2.6.5 (r265:79096, Mar 19 2010, 21:48:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import win32api Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1,

Re: [python-win32] MSI installer or zip file for pywin32?

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Hammond
On 8/04/2010 12:05 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: I don't think I've tried that config. I'll give it a shot. [After trying it...] Nope, that may be necessary, but it's not sufficient. I installed Python in a private directory just for me, then copied in the pywin32 extensions, then copied the

[python-win32] Python AX script engine issue

2010-04-07 Thread Marc-Andre Belzile
Hello, My ActiveX object leaks when I submit it as a named item to the Python AX script engine (IActiveScript::AddNamedItem) with my AX site application. I'm using build 214 on a Vista 64 bit machine. The leak is not there though with build 212, the regression seems to have been introduced