Newbie: returning dynamicly built lists (using win32com)

[Ransom]

Very newb here, but my question will hopefully be obvious to someone.

Code:

import string
from win32com.client import Dispatch
docdir = 'E:\\scripts\\Python\\RSAutomation\\'

def getOldData(testcases):

    excel = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
    excel.Workbooks.Open(docdir + 'FILE.xls')

    # load and create list from file (testcases.csv)
    for rsinput in testcases.xreadlines():

        inputlist = string.split(rsinput, ',')


        # iterate through and update spreadsheet input
        cellx = range(3,51)
        values = range(0,48)
        for i,r in zip(cellx, values):

            excel.ActiveSheet.Cells(i,2).Value = inputlist[r]

        # TODO: read output from cell 32,6 into a tuple or list and
then return list to __main__

        [THIS IS WHERE I AM HAVING A PROBLEM]
        print excel.ActiveSheet.Cells(32,6)   <--This prints properly
as loop executes

    excel.ActiveWorkbook.Close(SaveChanges=0)
    excel.Quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    csv_testcases = open('arse_testcases.csv','r')
    getOldData(csv_testcases)

OK, so what is happening is that I am sending a list of data to an
overly complicated spreadsheet that produces it's own output (in cell
32,6). As I loop through multiple test cases, the print statement
calling into COM for the cell data seems to be printing out results
just fine. But when I try and put the output from the spreadsheet into
a dynamic list after the TODO section thusly:

        outputlist = []
        outputlist.extend(excel.ActiveSheet.Cells(32,6)
        return outputlist

I get an error like:
[<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Excel 9.0 Object Library.Range instance at
0x15450880>]

I need to be able to return the dynamically generated built up by the
responses from the spreadsheet lookup call (the exce.Activesheet
thingy). Is there a better way to get this dynamically built list out
of the funtion?

Thanks!!!