Using pywin32, what is the difference between Dispatch and DispatchEx?

Question

When opening e.g. a spreadsheet with pywin32, I found two options to do so:

excel1 = win32com.client.DispatchEx(\'Excel.Application\')
wb = excel1.Workbooks.Open         


        

Answer 1

It depends on what you want. If Excel is already open, using dispatch will create a new tab in the open Excel instance. If Excel is already open, using dispatchEx will open a new instance of Excel.