copy & paste isolation with win32com & python

Question

Is there a way of using python and win32com to copy and paste such that python scripts can run in the background and not mess up the \"users\" copy and paste ability?

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Answer 1

Just read the data out into python, and then write it back.

Instead of:

ws.Range('a1:k%s' % row).select
ws.Range('a1:k%s' % row).cut
ws.Range('a7').select
ws.paste

Process the data cell-by-cell:

for r in range(1, row+1):    # I think Excel COM indexes from 1
    for c in range (1, 12):  # a--k
        val = ws.Cells(r, c).Value
        ws.Cells(r, c).Value = ''    # Blank this cell; equivalent to cut
        ws.Cells(?, ?).Value = val   # Write it somewhere ..

I'm not sure what pasting a two-dimensional selection into a single cell does, so I can't do the last line for you. You may find that you need to do two loops; one to read in the data, and then a second to write it back out.