On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 05:28:18PM -0800, David Haas wrote: > > I've run into a problem with DDE which, after much googling and trial > & error, I managed to work around, but I'm pretty sure there's a > better solution. > > I think the problem is this: there's currently no way for a python DDE > server to pass an array back as a response from a DDE Request - it's > either a string, or nothing. Since Excel expects the response it > receives from a DDE Request that it makes to be an array, it dies > (with what I believe is an Error 2042) when communicating with a > Python DDE server.
DDE works exclusively in strings. So, the key is to figure out how to encode the array as a string in order to satisfy Excel. I've been searching for an Excel DDE reference guide without success, although I'm certain there must be one. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boeklheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
