Possible to read/write Excel files in Python?

[Jim Abrams]

"Paul Brian" <paul1brian at yahoo.com> wrote in
<1002211708.1269.0.nnrp-07.c1c3e19f at news.demon.co.uk>: 

>
>Could I suggest the following:
>
>1) install a windows box and use the win32 extensions to setup the excel
>spreadsheet as a COM server, then push that data to your python
>application via smtplib or xmlrpc or whatever.
>

Take a look at Python21\win32com\test\testMSOffice.py for some
win32 examples with excel.