hecras_compute_rascontrol
Executes HEC-RAS plans using RasControl class via HECRASController COM interface
for legacy HEC-RAS versions (3.x-5.x). Handles COM lifecycle management, session
tracking, orphan cleanup, steady/unsteady result extraction, and watchdog
protection for Jupyter notebooks. Use when automating legacy HEC-RAS, extracting
results from older versions, comparing across HEC-RAS versions, or needing
COM-based automation that RasCmdr cannot provide.
Triggers: RasControl, HECRASController, COM, legacy, HEC-RAS 4, HEC-RAS 5,
win32com, steady results, unsteady results, version comparison, COM interface,
legacy automation, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, orphan cleanup, watchdog, session tracking.