pywin32 COM Problem with Excel Range Offset?

[jr]

"Michael Jordan" <mjordan at adobe.com> wrote in message news:tCeWb.1421$VP1.966333 at newshog.newsread.com...
> I'm hoping that someone here can give me some insight into a problem I'm
> running into with Python, pywin32 and Excel. All-in-all using Python and
> pywin32 is great but I've run into a strange problem with the range Offset
> property, I'm not getting the correct offset and the returned range is a
> single cell and not the same size as the original range.
>
> For example, when I enter the following lines of code in PythonWin :
>
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> xlApp = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
> xlApp.Visible = 1
> rng1 = xlApp.Range(xlApp.Cells(8,3),xlApp.Cells(20,6))
> rng1.Select()
> rng2 = rng1.Offset(2,2)
> rng2.Select()
>
> rng1 correctly defines and selects cells C8:F20 but rng2 is incorrectly
> defined as D9 instead of E10:H22.
>
> Digging a little further if I look at the cell sizes for the two ranges I
> get the following:
>
> >>> rng1.Count
> 52
> >>> rng2.Count
> 1
>
> What's going on with the Offset property? If I enter the equivalent VBA code
> into the Immediate window from the Visaul Basic Editor within Excel I get
> the correct behavior. Is this a pywin32 bug?
>
> My configuration:
>     pywin32 (build 200) {I got the lastest version to see if this would fix
> the problem - it didn't}
>     Python 2.3.3
>     MS Excel 2002
>     Windows XP
>
> Any insight into this problem will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Michael
>
>

Use: GetOffset(2, 2) instead.
For some reason gen.py changes "Offset()" to
"GetOffset()"

HTH
jr