Open MS Excel Spreadsheet with Python

[Thomas Güttler]

Allison Bailey wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm a brand new Python programmer, so please point me in the right
> direction if this is not the best forum for this question....
> 
> I would like to open an existing MS Excel spreadsheet and extract
> information from specific worksheets and cells.

Hi!

You can save the spreadsheet in XML format. This can be parsed and
modified. This has the advantage that it works on all plattforms.

I wrote a small receipe in the python cookbook some months ago.

 thomas