I've got a text file, say, "A.txt" and an Excel file, say "B.xlsx". My goal is to copy all the text from A.txt to a specified column in B.xlsx using a python script. For example, let's say A.txt looks like:

Word1 5
Word2 Word3
6 Word4

I would then want to copy this into, say, column J in worksheet "Words", such that the contents of cell J1 are "Word1 5", the contents of J2 are "Word2 Word3", and so on...

So, to reformulate the question, how can I copy text from a specified text file and paste it into a specified Excel column, such that the content of each cell is equivalent to the content of each line (one-to-one relationship)?

Many thanks in advance for any help!

Use the win32com library to interface directly with microsoft excel, as you are working in excel:

import win32com.client#Read text file lines into list
f = open("A.txt")
text_contents = f.readlines()# Open excel and your workbook
col = 2 # column B
excel=win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
excel.Visible=True # Note: set to false when scripting, only True for this example
wb=excel.Workbooks.Open('B.xlsx')
ws = wb.Worksheets('Sheet1')#Write text contents to column range
ws.Range(ws.Cells(col ,1),ws.Cells(col,len(text_contents))).Value = text_contents#Save the workbook and quit
wb.Close(True)
excel.Application.Quit()