Core Python Applications Programming, 3rd Edition

Chapter 7. *Programming Microsoft Office

Whatever you have to do, there is always a limiting factor that determines how quickly and well you get it done. Your job is to study the task and identify the limiting factor or constraint within it. You must then focus all of your energies on alleviating that single choke point.

—Brian Tracy, March 2001(from Eat That Frog, 2001, Berrett-Koehler)

In this chapter...

• Introduction

• COM Client Programming with Python

• Introductory Examples

• Intermediate Examples

• Related Modules/Packages

Note that the examples in this chapter require a Windows operating system; they will not work on Apple computers running Microsoft Office for Mac.

This chapter represents a departure from most other sections of this ...