>  what is IBM OnDemand?

mmm... it's not really relevant to the question, which could relate to any
app that takes longer than 5 seconds to respond to a dde request. But I'm
sure google would reward your curiosity...

> 
> 
>  On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:35:57 +0100, Robert Hogan <robert.d.hogan@[...].ie>
wrote:
>  > Hi there,
>  >
>  > I'm using Python's DDE with IBM OnDemand. As you can imagine queries
often
>  > take a little while to return, so pythonwin's DDE hardcoded timeout of 5
>  > seconds in stddde.cpp is just not enough. At the moment I'm using 'try:
>  > except:' to work around it but I would prefer to increase the timeout. I
>  > don't have MSVC at work or home so I can't rebuild myself. Does anyone
have
>  > a build where the timeout is say > 50 secs?
>  >
>  > Also, why is the timeout so low in the default build?
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Robert
>  >
>  >
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