Embedding a chart in excel

[Stephen Boulet]

I'm having trouble scripting Excel to embed a chart from python.

Say I have created a sheet object and a workbook object, "xlSheet" and
"xlBook".

Creating a chart in front of my sheet is as easy as:

xlSheet.Select( )
xlChart = xlBook.Charts.A dd()

Now how do I tell it to go embed itself in my sheet? In VBA, it might be
something like:

xlChart.Locatio n Where:=xlLocati onAsObject, Name:=xlSheet.N ame

Thanks.

(Is there a newsgroup/list with more of a focus on issues like this than
c.l.py?)

-- Stephen

[srijit@yahoo.com]

Re: Embedding a chart in excel

Hello,
Refer the following link:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=6eaef82c8c0d9548&seekm=37ee60c8.0308202344.f470d26%40posting.google.com#link11

Does it help you? If it doesn't, let me know what improvements are
required.

Regards,
Srijit

Stephen Boulet <Stephen.Boulet @no.spam.motoro la.com> wrote in message news:<bi3gg3$8p k$1@newshost.mo t.com>...[color=blue]
> I'm having trouble scripting Excel to embed a chart from python.
>
> Say I have created a sheet object and a workbook object, "xlSheet" and
> "xlBook".
>
> Creating a chart in front of my sheet is as easy as:
>
> xlSheet.Select( )
> xlChart = xlBook.Charts.A dd()
>
> Now how do I tell it to go embed itself in my sheet? In VBA, it might be
> something like:
>
> xlChart.Locatio n Where:=xlLocati onAsObject, Name:=xlSheet.N ame
>
> Thanks.
>
> (Is there a newsgroup/list with more of a focus on issues like this than
> c.l.py?)
>
> -- Stephen[/color]

[Stephen Boulet]

Re: Embedding a chart in excel

Very nice. I was working on my own excel classes, but I see this does lots.

Im my example, I can see from the code that arguments to the Add method
aren't optional. Thanks.

Maybe this should be in the python cookbook?

-- Stephen

srijit@yahoo.co m wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
> Refer the following link:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...gle.com#link11
>
> Does it help you? If it doesn't, let me know what improvements are
> required.
>
> Regards,
> Srijit
>
> Stephen Boulet <Stephen.Boulet @no.spam.motoro la.com> wrote in message news:<bi3gg3$8p k$1@newshost.mo t.com>...
>[color=green]
>>I'm having trouble scripting Excel to embed a chart from python.
>>
>>Say I have created a sheet object and a workbook object, "xlSheet" and
>>"xlBook".
>>
>>Creating a chart in front of my sheet is as easy as:
>>
>>xlSheet.Selec t()
>>xlChart = xlBook.Charts.A dd()
>>
>>Now how do I tell it to go embed itself in my sheet? In VBA, it might be
>>something like:
>>
>>xlChart.Locat ion Where:=xlLocati onAsObject, Name:=xlSheet.N ame
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>(Is there a newsgroup/list with more of a focus on issues like this than
>>c.l.py?)
>>
>>-- Stephen[/color][/color]

[srijit@yahoo.com]

Re: Embedding a chart in excel

Hello,
Can you send me the code? In the mean time I shall check setcell.

Regards,
Srijit

Stephen Boulet <Stephen.Boulet @no.spam.motoro la.com> wrote in message news:<bi5hm6$40 t$1@newshost.mo t.com>...[color=blue]
> There seems to be a problem with UseExcel.setcel l:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> a.setcell(sht1. Name,1,(1,1))[/color][/color]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "excel_from_goo gle.py", line 139, in setcell
> sht.Cells(row, col).Font.FontS ize = fontSize
> File "C:\Python23\li b\site-packages\win32c om\client\dynam ic.py", line
> 504, in __setattr__
> raise AttributeError, "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." %
> (self._username _, attr)
> AttributeError: Property '<unknown>.Font Size' can not be set.
>[/color]

[srijit@yahoo.com]

Re: Embedding a chart in excel

Hello,
Can you send me the code? In the mean time I shall check setcell.

Regards,
Srijit

Stephen Boulet <Stephen.Boulet @no.spam.motoro la.com> wrote in message news:<bi5hm6$40 t$1@newshost.mo t.com>...[color=blue]
> There seems to be a problem with UseExcel.setcel l:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> a.setcell(sht1. Name,1,(1,1))[/color][/color]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "excel_from_goo gle.py", line 139, in setcell
> sht.Cells(row, col).Font.FontS ize = fontSize
> File "C:\Python23\li b\site-packages\win32c om\client\dynam ic.py", line
> 504, in __setattr__
> raise AttributeError, "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." %
> (self._username _, attr)
> AttributeError: Property '<unknown>.Font Size' can not be set.
>[/color]