[Tutor] Q: win32 download (attack of the newbies)

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Wed Dec 6 16:38:15 CET 2006


Toon Pieton wrote:
> Hey, friendly person who took the time to read this!
> 
> I'm cutting right to the case. Trying to get certain information into 
> Excel. However, I can't:
> 
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> 
> xlApp = Dispatch("
> Excel.Application")
> # continues
> 
> As soon as I start the program, I get a error: win32com.client not 
> found. This - of course - leads to the conclusion that I don't have the 
> win32com module installed. I tried to find it (Google), but all I could 
> find when searching for "python win32 module (download)", I can only 
> find the normal python install. I'm running Win XP Pro, and have Python 
> ver 2.5.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

> BTW: I really need to get that information into Excel. This program is 
> for some beginner computer users, and all they really know is Word and 
> Excel.

You might also consider writing CSV files which can be opened in Excel.

Kent



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