I think the main point is that your Python code should be written in such a way that when you attempt to connect to your local MSDE it will timeout correctly instead of hanging.
Do you have a loop somewhere that just keeps retrying the connection instead of giving up at some point? Here are a couple of links to bits o code, that you can use to see whats running on your local machine. http://blog.dowski.com/2003/12/20/getting-at-processes-with-python-and-wmi/ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2001-November/000155.html Search the resulting lists for whatever name MSDE is supposed to run as. -Josh On 12/1/06, bill ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dennis none of this matters, all i am trying to find out is whether or not the local MSDE is actually running. I put all the other bits in there to try and put some background to it. kind regards bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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