Mac equivalent to COM in Windows?

[John J. Lee]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

> jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:
> 
> > Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > Is there a way for a Python program to interact with MS Excel on the
> > > Macintosh? My goal is to extract contents of cells.
> > 
> > I'd be interested in the answer to that, too.  Surely COM must be in
> > there somewhere?  This is the wrong newsgroup to find out, though.
> 
> The Mac-ish anser is apple events.  I don't know whether Excel's Apple
> Event support is useful on the Mac, though.

Interesting.  I was wondering about COM itself, though.


John