[python-win32] Starting a New excel.exe Process as Opposed to Recycling an Existing Excel

Hi all, I notice that excel = win32com.client.Dispatch(Excel.Application) does not necessarily create a new excel.exe process. If excel.exe is already running, then it will be recycled and a new process will not be created. However, I would like to have some control over this and tell it to

Re: [python-win32] Starting a New excel.exe Process as Opposed to Recycling an Existing Excel

I shall answer my own question (thanks to David Foster who pointed this out and Tim Golden for posting it): http://www.thalesians.com/finance/index.php/Knowledge_Base/Python/General#Starting_a_new_instance_of_a_COM_application The trick is to use DispatchEx rather than Dispatch. Best wishes,

Re: [python-win32] Converting DD MM YYYY into YYYY-MM-DD?

Gilles Ganault wrote: I find it odd that the regex library can't handle European characters :-/ Can you show us an example where regex doesn't handle Unicode strings reasonably? DaveA ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org