Re: Exposing Excel as a Webservice

2006-09-15 Thread Brandon
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I cannot use a different format for the data since I'm really using Excel as a calculation engine. I don't own the authoring of these spreadsheets or even the data inside of them so I cannot change the format. The spreadsheets also are complicated enough and c

Re: Exposing Excel as a Webservice

2006-09-15 Thread utabintarbo
Disclaimer: I am not an expert in python, or even programming, for that matter In any case, option #2 sounds like the most theoretically sound. It sounds like you are using Excel as a database, and your worker thread as a transaction queue. Something to consider: do you really need to modify

Exposing Excel as a Webservice

2006-09-14 Thread Brandon
Hi all, I'm currently working on a project where we have a need to expose an Excel spreadsheet on the web as a webservice that needs to be reliable and available 24x7x365. I've implemented a prototype of this in python using the win32com library to interface with the Excel Automation API via COM.