Creating Excel files on Linux

[Kevin Dahlhausen]

> As another alternative, the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module
> [WriteExcel] for Perl is a cross-platform module that can create Excel
> spreadsheets without needing a copy of Excel. You could consider
> converting it to Python, or else call it directly from within Python
> using ActiveState's PyPerl module [PyPerl] that embeds a Perl
> interpreter in Python.

My head hurts after reading that.  (But it is kind of great. Never
knew about such a beast as PyPerl.)