Python to Excell

[David Rushby]

pixie888 at hotmail.com wrote
> ...
> I do not know the interface which is exposed by Excell.  Can anybody help me 
> further on this one?

  Here's a post that I made some time ago on this subject:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7876a8ea.0112061746.145c1e76%40posting.google.com&output=gplain

  **Pay special attention to the URLs listed in that post; they link
to documentation of Excel's exposed object model.**

> ...writing a script which updates an Excell sheet...

  The linked post explicitly demonstrates how to update an Excel
worksheet on a range-by-range (which could mean cell-by-cell) basis.

> ...and which prints it out then...

  To print a WorkBook, use the PrintOut() method.

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  Also, Stefan's suggestion that you "use the macro recorder of excel
and translate it to python code" is good advice.  Perhaps you don't
know this, but you can record a macro that does a small part of your
ultimate task, then look at the Visual Basic for Applications code
that the macro recorder generated and model your hand-written code on
it.  That's the easiest way to learn the Excel object model
incrementally, though you should definitely still use the MSDN
documentation.