Does MS Office need to be installed to use pywin32 for editing Exceldocs?

[Astley Le Jasper]

I'm creating excel docs on the fly using XLWT. However, I need to
include filters which I believe can only be done with pywin32.

Does pywin32 use elements from Windows itself, or excel when
dispatching?

 

[Tim Golden]

Does pywin32 use elements from Windows itself, or excel when
dispatching?

Yes: it's simply exposing to the Python user the API provided
by MS Office (or whatever other app) via the IDispatch COM
mechanism.

IOW, if you don't have Microsoft Excel installed, this won't work:

import win32com.client
win32com.client.Dispatch ("Excel.Application")

TJG

 

[Astley Le Jasper]

Yes: it's simply exposing to the Python user the API provided
by MS Office (or whatever other app) via the IDispatch COM
mechanism.

IOW, if you don't have Microsoft Excel installed, this won't work:

import win32com.client
win32com.client.Dispatch ("Excel.Application")

TJG

Hi Tim,

Thanks for that.

ALJ