[python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 165, Issue 3

[Tim Roberts]

On Dec 4, 2016, at 9:17 AM, Doug Sharkey <douglas.sharkey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Appreciate the response. Although it has a .P extension it's actually an Excel spreadsheet (xlsx format). Business rules require the name format.

How does that make any sense at all?  If you double-click on that file name, the system isn't going to know that it's supposed to bring up Excel.  Excel only registers its well-known extensions.  If you email that file to someone else, they won't know how to open it either.


> I could rename it but I suspect the name isn't the issue since this code works fine on my 2008 laptop with the .P file. I'll try renaming it just to be sure.

Is it possible your 2008 laptop had had the registry changes necessary to associate .P files with Excel, but your current laptop does not?
— 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.