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Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 10:40:50 +0100
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On 30/05/2015 10:30, Justin Thyme wrote:
> Is it possible to write a Python program that will start MS Excel,
> create a spreadsheet and fill cells A1 to A10 (say) with the data in a
> Python array?  The answer is surely yes, but is there an outline of how
> to do it somewhere?


This is still a good place to start:

   http://www.python-excel.org/

but I know I've seen several other packages not mentioned there which 
either call Excel from Python or vice versa. xlwings (not sure?)

TJG