Matimus wrote: >>the date( 8/9/2006 ) in Excel file, i am getting the value as 38938.0, >>which I get when I convert date values to general format in Excel. I >>want the actual date value. How do get that? > > > 38938 appears to be the date in days since 1/1/1900. I'm sure someone > can help you figure out how to convert that to a more useful value. >
I believe the win32all extension contains functionality to help with that, thought it's a long time since I even ran PythonWin (sorry, Mark). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
