Xlwings take value from defined names

Question

I have an excel with a defined name, cell A1 has assigned name "myName" is there a way with xlwings to take its content from its name rather than on its coordinates?

It should be the same of

    title, coord = next(wb.defined_names['myName'].destinations)
content = wb[title][coord].value

in openpyxls

Answer 1

Sure, just do:

import xlwings as xw
xw.sheets[0].range('myName').value

See also: http://docs.xlwings.org/en/stable/api.html#name

Answer 2

import xlwings as xw
content = xw.Range('myName').value

This avoids the positional reference to the sheet so that you can copy/paste your named range from one sheet to another as you build.

Answer 3

Using xlwings, very similarly to VBA, you could use the following

range_object = wb.names("named_range").refers_to_range
range_value = wb.names("named_range").refers_to_range.value

As mentioned by Felix, the http://docs.xlwings.org/en/stable/api.html#name page has the answer. Unfortunately, there are no examples of how to access the named range without first specifying a worksheet. I hope my explanation helps.