Mac equivalent to COM in Windows?

[Michael Hudson]

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.

Cheers,
mwh

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