> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:53:32 -0700
> Subject: -2146826246 in win32com.client for empty #N/A cell in Excel
> From: sven.bo...@gmail.com
> To: python-list@python.org
> 
> 
> Anyone know how to handle "#N/A" in Excel from win32com.client.
> 
> I'm extracting data from an Excel file using win32com.client. Everything 
> works fine except for when the value "#N/A" is entered in excel. An empty 
> cell. I assumed I do something as 
> 
> if ws.Cells(r, c).Value is None:
>     ...
> 
> But that doesn't seem to work. When I debug the piece of code while handling 
> #N/A in a cell the type of the cell according to win32com.client is int and 
> the value in the cell is -2146826246. Chances are small just this number will 
> appear in Excel, but it looks dirty to depend on that value to decide if a 
> cell is empty. Looked around the net for a solution, but nothing came up so 
> far.
> 
> Anyone knows how to handle a "#N/A" cell in Excel in the proper way?
> 
> Regards,
> Sven
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Hello,
Does that number happen to be -1 * sys.maxint?
Regards,Albert-Jan

                                          
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