> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > >> >> You're sure the client wants binary, and not some ASCII encoding of the >> binary? That was a common strategy in the days when DDE was popular >> (that is, during the reign of the 80386). >> >> Your assessment is correct. The PyWin32 DDE support is string only. If >> you really need binary, then you will have to write a DLL helper. The >> ctypes module might help. >> >
So it looks like I need to encode my data as CF_TEXT (clipboard format). Any hints on how I can encode a byte string as CF_TEXT? Not for use on the clipboard, but for sending as the return value for a DDE request. Thanks, Dave Cook
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