opening excel

[John Machin]

timmy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> has anybody got any experience opening and manilpulating excel
> spreedsheets via python? it seems pythoncom allows this to happen but
> i'm a total newb to it. (i usually work in the unix world)
> all i need to do, is open the xls files and read values from it.

If you really mean "read" rather than "manipulate", have a look at the
xlrd package (of which I'm the author).

http://www.python.org/pypi/xlrd

BTW, it's pure Python; you can run it on your unix box if you like :-)

Cheers,
John