Python Programming on Win32
by Mark Hammond · first published 2000
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http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926219 - Python Programming on Win32 has some good info and some stories on "batch processing" of office docs. Good case study on "Applied Biometrics" capturing of drug testing process. I've used the py/com stuff to do some of what you want…
on “Ask HN: A Good Reference to MS Office Automation, Please” ↗I did a bit of Excel programming in Python; a tool to extract, and sanity check, data from a spreadsheet, send it to a server and populate results back in the spreadsheet. The "Python Programming On Win32" book by Mark Hammond was a great resource http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565926219.do
on “Automating Microsoft Office with Python” ↗There used to be something for Internet Explorer 4 and above. All you had to do was to set the language attribute of the <script> tag to Python. See "Python Programming On Win32: Help for Windows Programmers", page 437 [1]. [1]: http://books.google.ro/books?id=fzUCGtyg0MMC&pg=PA437
on “Python 3 can revive Python” ↗