wesley chun wrote: > > has anybody got any experience opening and manilpulating excel > > spreedsheets via python? it seems pythoncom allows this to happen > > > i posted a couple of snippets along with others in this earlier thread: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a7ed60067ca5a8d4 > > the XLRD package is a platform-independent non-COM way to *extract* > Excel data. you mentioned opening and manipulating spreadsheets > *using* COM, so there are more examples targeted towards what you were > asking for at that link.
What makes you so sure that's what the OP was asking for? "mentioned" != "asking for". Did you not notice his last sentence, "all i need to do, is open the xls files and read values from it."? > > i added a small section on Win32 COM client programming to the Core > Python book, and although it doesn't go extremely in-depth, it's > perfectly targeted to "newbs" coming from the Unix world, as was i. > > hope this helps! > -- wesley > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 > http://corepython.com > > wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com > python training and technical consulting > cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca > http://cyberwebconsulting.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
