DDE Client?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.1006372409.19698.python-list at python.org>,
David Brady  <daves_spam_dodging_account at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick Vrijlandt
>[mailto:p.vrijlandt at aig.azn.nl]
>> 
>> I'm afraid python dde leaks memory, but I haven't
>> checked the source and have no confirmation from
>> the author. If your application crashes after a
>> few thousand dde-calls, think of this.
>
>Eww.  The spec I'm leaning towards is to be able to
>run long-term and stable, with several thousand DDE
>calls per day.
>
>I wonder if it's Python that loses it or DDE itself. 
>I recall finding a bug WAYYYY back when in the early
>DDE implementation.  StdDde.c used a linked list of
>topics, and IIRC deleting a topic had a bug in it that
>would delete the desired node WITHOUT reattaching the
>prev node to the next node.  This has probably changed
>since then; this was in my early coding days working
>with MFC 2.x.
>
>Any thoughts?  Who is the author, Mark Hammond?
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While I feel a bit dirty saying this, you *could* import
Tk, then use the Tcl DDE package.  Is that worth con-
sidering?  While the Tcl DDE package is not particularly
well known, even among Tcl-ers, my experience with it
suggests that it's stable.
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