Load Excel add-in using win32com from Python

Question

I\'ve seen from various questions on here that if an instance of Excel is opened from Python using:

xl = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch(\'Excel.Applicat         


        

Answer 1

I have actually managed to resolve this by borrowing something from this MSDN article relating to doing the same thing with VBA:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q213489

The following now works perfectly:

xl = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application')
xl.Visible = True
xl.RegisterXLL('C:/path/addin.xll')
wb = xl.Workbooks.Open('Test.xlsx')