interfacing to a remote excel app

[Bram Stolk]

pyHello,


Google helped me find a nice package to interface python with MS Excel.
"win32all", or sometimes called by the name "pywin32".

http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/

However, this win32all extension seems to be specifically built for the
windows platform only.

What could I use if I want to interface to excel from a python interpreter
running on a remote UNIX machine?

The specific task I want to accomplish is as follows:
I want python on UNIX to be able to make selections in excel (highlight rows).
Also, I want to have changes in the selected (highlighted) items in excel
to be communicated to the python running on UNIX.

What would be the best way to do this?

Thanks,

  Bram

PS: A possible approach would be to run two interpreters, one on both
platforms, and have the MS python talk to excel. However, I would like a
solution with low-impact to the MS platform, and want to get away without
having to install python and win32all on the MS machine.

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