Possible to read/write Excel files in Python?

Wed Oct 3 15:21:10 EDT 2001

in article mailman.1002132904.15858.python-list at python.org, Cliff Wells at
logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net wrote on 10/3/01 14:09:

> 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...

The article talks about generic perl modules that work under both Windows
and Linux. Take a look here:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pexcel/

Steve