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On 5/14/2011 11:11 AM, cesium5500@yahoo.ca wrote:

> I would like to build a database of all the MS-Excel file on a LAN. I
> would like to get the files metadata : filename, summary, location,
> size, etc.

You subject line is about a non-specific as can be, which means that the 
person who can answer would not know and would likely skip over it. 
Something like

"Wanted: a module to catalog Excel files on a LAN"

would grab attention better.

> Is there a dedicated python lib for the task? Is pywin32 one of the
> possible lib available?

Sorry, I have no idea.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy