wx.lib.agw.xlsgrid.Excel

A simple class that holds a COM interface to Excel.

By using the win32com module from Mark Hammonds’ pywin32 package, we can manipulate various workbook/worksheet methods inside this class.

Class Hierarchy

Inheritance diagram for class Excel:

Methods Summary

__init__	Default class constructor.
Close	Closes the Excel workbook, interrupting the COM interface.
GetCommentsRange	Returns a range of cells containing comments, using the VBA API.
GetText	Returns the WYSIWYG text contained in a cell.

Class API

class Excel(object)

A simple class that holds a COM interface to Excel.

By using the win32com module from Mark Hammonds’ pywin32 package, we can manipulate various workbook/worksheet methods inside this class.

Methods

__init__(self, filename, sheetname)

Default class constructor.

Parameters

• filename – a valid Excel xls filename;

• sheetname – the worksheet name inside the Excel file (i.e., the label on the workbook tab at the bottom of the workbook).

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Close(self, save=False)

Closes the Excel workbook, interrupting the COM interface.

Parameters

save – True to save the changes you made to the workbook, False otherwise.

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GetCommentsRange(self)

Returns a range of cells containing comments, using the VBA API.

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GetText(self, row, col)

Returns the WYSIWYG text contained in a cell.

Parameters

• row – the row in which the cell lives;

• col – the column in which the cell lives.

Note

The row and col parameters are not real Python index, as they use the Excel indexing mode (i.e., first index is 1 and not 0).