MS COM early and late binding

[Simon Brunning]

"Olaf Meding" <OlafMeding at noSpam.compuserve.com> wrote in message news:<408ed8e5$1_1 at newspeer2.tds.net>...
> What you suggest might work, but does not look to elegant.  Can anyone else
> perhaps suggest a more elegant solution?  Thanks.

Not elegant? This is COM, you know!

Anyway, I do this:

excel = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application')

Then I know I'm using early binding.

Cheers,
Simon B.