John,
>> If this means "Can I create a totally different independant instance of
>> Excel so that I don't run the risk of stuffing up what the user is doing
>> with their existing instance", then I'd like to know too.
That's exactly what it is.
Actually a bit more complicated than that for me.
I'm building a farm of XP boxes to run Excel spreadsheet based models.
I have a bit of python to act as a server, reading a message over a socket, calling out to Excel, and returning the result.
I expect to be running more than one server on a machine, and hence more than one "instance" of Excel.
What Tim proposed worked for me in the simple test I ran (meaning it didn't kill the already-running-instance of excel when I ran it a few times).
Soon I'll be doing the more involved thing, with a farm of one. I'll certainly let y'all know if it doesn't work!
Thanks,
Tom
| John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/2005 04:15 PM |
|
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use Python's win32com interface to drive an excel
> spreadsheet.
>
> I've managed to have it open the sheet, call a VBA function with
> arguments, and close it down cleanly.
>
> However, if Excel is already running, it closes the open instance.
> Which is not good.
>
> Is there a way I can do the equivalent of VBA's CreateObject() with
> win32com?
If this means "Can I create a totally different independant instance of
Excel so that I don't run the risk of stuffing up what the user is doing
with their existing instance", then I'd like to know too.
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