Modifying an existing excel spreadsheet

[Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens]

Am 20.12.2010 22:56, schrieb Ed Keith:
> I have a user supplied 'template' Excel spreadsheet. I need to create a new excel spreadsheet based on the supplied template, with data filled in.
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> I found the tools here http://www.python-excel.org/,  and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/. I have been trying to use the former, since the latter seems to be devoid of documentation (not even any docstrings).
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> My first thought was to copy the template, open the copy, modify it and save the modifications. But it looks like if I open an existing spreadsheet it must be read only.
Could you post some code ? Did you try a simple file copy or do you 
iterate over all the cells ?
>   So I tried to  open the template, copy it to a new spreadsheet and write the new spreadsheet, but I can't seem to copy the images, and it looks like copying the formatting is going to be difficult.
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> Can anyone give me any tips or advice?
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> Thanks in advance,
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>     -EdK
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> Ed Keith
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As long as your program only needs to run under windows,
COM automation is IMHO the best solution.
Python tells Excel what to do.