Reading MS Excel Files ?

[Peter Skipworth]

Hi,

I've recently started developing in Python, after quite a few years on Perl.
Quite a few of the scripts I develop need to be able to parse a Microsoft
Excel spreadsheet - with Perl, this was quite simple, using a module called
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. Does anything similar exist for Python ?

Note that I'm working on a Linux platform and thus need a non-Win32-centric
solution.

Thanks!

P