Is there a better way (besides COM) to remote-control Excel?

Question

I\'m working on a regression-testing tool that will validate a very large number of Excel spreadsheets. At the moment I control them via COM from a Python script using the l

Answer 1

Have you looked at the xlrd and xlwt packages? I'm not in need of them any more, but I had good success with xlrd on my last project. Last I knew, they couldn't process macros, but could do basic reading and writing of spreadsheets. Also, they're platform independent (the program I wrote was targetted to run on Linux)!