saving a excel sheet as a csv file

[Graeme Matthew]

what about ---> xl2csv("d:\\file.xls", "d:\\file.csv", Sheet)

you might also want to rather use the form, but its been a while :-)

wbk = xl.Workbooks.Open(source)
wks = wbk.Worksheets(sheet)

"Joost van Rooij" <j.vanrooij_at_e-quest.nl> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I would like to save an Excel file to a csv file, which works nicely using
> com, but I can't seem to find out how to be able to select a particular
> sheet.
>
> This code converts all right, but the selecting the right sheet won't
> work...
>
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>
> def xl2csv(source, destination, sheet):
>     xl = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
>     xl.Workbooks.Open(source)
>     xl.Sheets.Select(sheet)
>     xl.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(destination,FileFormat= "6")
>     xl.Workbooks(1).Close(0)
>     return
>
> xl2csv("d:\\file.xls", "d:\\file.csv", "Sheet2")
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated....
>
> grtz Joost
>
>