Forums Scripts & Popups Sockets vs DDE, which is faster for mIRC?

I have an external program that needs to communicate with mIRC, anyone have any idea which is a faster method of communication?

(Other things such as ease and whatnot apply too, but keep in mind my language of choice will be Python)

Sockets, although if you have access to DDE you likely also have access to the SendMessage() API. /help SendMessage

There's a Python4mIRC dll at http://www.mircscripts.org

That works to communicate with mIRC from an external program? I need fast, 2 way communication.

I had actually tried that though, and got frustrated that i couldn't figure out how to access a mirc instance from my python program, so i just wrote a socket class in less time than it took to try and figure it out heh.

Good ol sockets