[Baypiggies] Reading XLSX files?

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Tuesday 11 January 2011 22:27:51 Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Rami Chowdhury wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 January 2011 19:44:53 Tony Cappellini wrote:
> >> BTW- this reads (and there is a write module too) that the binary file
> >> natively, without needing to have Excel on the machine
> > 
> > Does xlrd do Excel 2007 format?
> 
> I just tried it; it raises an XLRDError('Unsupported format, or
> corrupt file: ...') when I try to open an Excel 2007 file.  Although
> it works just fine if I re-save the file in Excel 2003 format.

Well if you have the ability to re-save in Excel 2003 then xlrd should do the 
job brilliantly :-)

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