Tim Golden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > | Hello all, > | > | I'm having some trouble on the find function in Excel. A > | simple Find statement works fine, but as soon as I want to > | use an advanced option (xlByColumns) I get an error. > | > > [... snip ...] > > | findcell = > | xlApp.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Find('FXN3',None,constants.xlValue > | s,constants.xlWhole,constants.xlByColumns,constants.xlNext,Fal > | se,False,None) > > | And this is the output: > | C:\temp\python\excel>python findtest.py > | $D$5 > | Traceback (most recent call last): > | File "findtest.py", line 20, in ? > | findcell = > | xlApp.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Find('FXN3',None,constants.xlValues,c > | onstants.xlWhole,constants.xlByColumns,constants.xlNext,False, > | False,None) > | File "C:\Program > | Files\python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\00020813-000 > | 0-0000-C000-000000000046x0x1x4.py", line 21407, in Find > | , MatchCase, MatchByte, SearchFormat) > | pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', > | (0, None, None, None, > | 0, -2147352571), 9) > > *Very* quick and untested response: try using named > params for the Find method. At the very least, you > can then miss out the default values and it might > narrow the prob. down
When you use None, the arguments will still be presented to the Excel interface as Null. It would appear that the Excel interface doesn't like either the [After] arg nor the [SearchFormat] arg to be Null. Named arguments will work as suggested; this will prevent those arguments from being presented to the Excel interface at all. You can also use pythoncom.Missing, which is another way to prevent arguments from being presented to the interface: [code] from pythoncom import Missing usedRange = xlApp.ActiveSheet.UsedRange usedRange.Find('FXN3', Missing, constants.xlValues, constants.xlWhole, constants,xlByColumns, constants.xlNext, False, False, Missing) [/code] -- -Dan Glassman _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32