How to open a password protected excel file using python?

Question

I looked at the previous threads regarding this topic, but they have not helped solve the problem.

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I'm trying to open a password protected file in excel without any user interaction. I searched online, and found this code which uses win32com.client When I run this, I still get the prompt to enter the password...

from xlrd import *
import win32com.client
import csv
import sys

xlApp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
print "Excel library version:", xlApp.Version
filename,password = r"\\HRA\Myfile.xlsx", 'caa team'
xlwb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(filename, Password=password)

Answer 1

I don't think that named parameters work in this case. So you'd have to do something like:

xlwb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(filename, False, True, None, password)

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff194819.aspx for details on the Workbooks.Open method.