Using Python to program MS Office macros?

Question

I\'ve recently taken it as a project to teach myself how to program in Python. Overall, I must say that I\'m impressed with it.

In the past I\'ve typically stuck to

Answer 1

Yes, absolutely. You want to use win32com module, which is part of pywin32 (get it here).

I've found you can really simplify Python integration by writing a macro in VBA for Python to use, and then just have Python call the macro. It will look something like this:

from win32com.client import Dispatch as comDispatch

xl = comDispatch('Excel.Application')
xl.Workbooks.Open("Macros.xls", False, True)
xl.Run("Macros.xls!Macro_1")

I'm sure there are plently of examples on SO... Like this one.