Possible to read/write Excel files in Python?

Cliff Wells logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 3 14:09:03 EDT 2001


On Wednesday 03 October 2001 10:39, Steven Sartorius wrote:
> I'm running 2.1.1 on an i386 NetBSD box and the application I'm working on
> needs to grab some data from an Excel spreadsheet.  I've found a couple of
> apps (xlHTML for example) that will take a spreadsheet and turn it into
> html/text and I've seen an article on IBM's web site talking about how to
> read/write Excel with perl.  Is there anything out there that will let me

Is the perl application they're running a Windows perl application?  If so 
they're probably just setting it up as an ODBC source.  I would be curious if 
that app would really work on non-MS platforms...

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