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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: unable to read combo boxes in excel by xlrd package in python
Date: 27 Sep 2013 15:26:23 GMT
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On 2013-09-27, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:
> On 2013-09-27, somesh g <someshg2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi..there
>>
>> I want to read the combo box in excel by using "xlrd" but in
>> the output it is showing empty message, its not reading the
>> combo box can u guys help me how to read the combo box in excel
>> by "xlrd"
>>
>> code written like this
>>
>> workbook = xlrd.open_workbook('path of the file')
>> worksheet = workbook.sheet_by_name('sheetname')
>> TargetSystem = worksheet.cell_value(4, 2)
>
> It depends on what kind of combo-box it is. The Excel-native
> combo-box sucks (no auto-completion, no multi-select, etc.), and
> so it's possible a Visual Basic widget was used instead. That
> would leave the cell contents blank when read, as above.
>
> You will need to retrieve the value from the combo-box object
> directly somehow.

If it's an Active-X ListBox or ComboBox, there's probably be a
CellLink defined. This will be the cell you need to read with
xlrd to get the value.

-- 
Neil Cerutti