Why not just format the entire column as string data, before calling Python? That's just requires a few menu clicks, then pass that column to Python.
Another option is to use a Python library called xlrd, which reads Excel (.XLS) files from Python. This way you can avoid using COM and the need to have Excel on the machine where you are reading the file. There are some limits to what you can do with the library, but for just pulling in data, it should be ok. Your Python script can check the data type of each cell as you are iterating over the cells. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
