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Optimizing

As with most (if not all) high-level languages, it can be all too easy to churn out code that is unbearably slow, but that can be easily fixed with a little thought.

With WIN32OLE, you need to be careful with unnecessary dynamic lookups. Where possible, it is better to assign a WIN32OLE object to a variable and then reference elements from it, rather than creating a long chain of ``.'' expressions.

For example, instead of writing

workbook.Worksheets(1).Range("A1").value = 1
workbook.Worksheets(1).Range("A2").value = 2
workbook.Worksheets(1).Range("A3").value = 4
workbook.Worksheets(1).Range("A4").value = 8

we can eliminate the common subexpressions by saving the first part of the expression to a temporary variable and then make calls from that variable:

worksheet = workbook.Worksheets(1)

worksheet.Range("A1").value = 1 worksheet.Range("A2").value = 2 worksheet.Range("A3").value = 4 worksheet.Range("A4").value = 8


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